IV. Ecosmomics: Independent, UniVersal, Complex Network Systems and a Genetic Code-Script Source

2. The Innate Affinity of Genomes, Proteomes and Language

Zhang, Hong-Yu. The Evolution of Genomes and Language. EMBO Reports. 7/8, 2006. EMBO = European Molecular Biology Organization. A brief note, but one which cites a growing convergence between the “information sciences” of genetics and linguistics. Of especial interest is the author’s comparison with historic inscriptions of Chinese characters.

Zolyan, Suren. From Matter to Form: The Evolution of the Genetic Code as Semio-poiesis. Semiotica. March, 2022. A senior Russian linguist (search) considers how a better perception of nature’s deeply pervasive, self-similar, genomic procreativity can be attained by a turn to and inclusion of an informative biosemiotic essence.

We address issues of description of the origin and evolution of the genetic code from a semiotics standpoint. Developing the concept of code-poiesis introduced by (Marcello) Barbieri, a new idea of semio-poiesis is proposed. Such a recursive auto-referential processing of semiotic system could become a form of organization of the bio-world when notions of meaning are introduced into it. The description of the genetic code as a semiotic system (grammar and vocabulary) allows us to apply an internal reconstruction on the basis of heterogeneity so to explicate forms of coding and textualization. (Abstract excerpt)

The dual nature – biochemical and informational – of the genetic code and genome presupposes that one should be based on the principle of complementarity for its description (cf. Pattee 2007). As in the case of the waveparticle duality of physical entities, only when taken together will biochemical and informational descriptions represent a comprehensive state of affairs. The duality of genetic information will be represented through the double theoretical description. (18)

In philosophy, poiesis (from Ancient Greek) is the activity in which something is brought into being that did not exist before. It is a combined word for the making or formation some compound result. The term autopoiesis refers to a system capable of producing and maintaining itself.

Suren Zolyan: National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia; Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; and Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia,

Zolyan, Suren. On the Context-Sensitive Grammar of the Genetic Codes. Biosystems. Volume 206, 2021. Into the 2020s, an Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia senior linguist can identify deeper affinities between these two prime phases of nature’s generative and descriptive expressions. Further comparisons then include involve semiotic communications, alphabetic comparisons, nucleotide profiles and more. By a reflective view, it seems that whatever maelstroms may consume archaic nations (thinking with tanks), worldwise human intellects continue their quest to parse and read our gravid liferature endowment.

We address the possibilities of the semiotic description of the genetic information as a dual and self-replicative correspondence between its biochemical substance and organization. Combining the principles of contextual dependence and arbitrariness leads to the conclusion that the genetic code's primary elements (nucleotides) can be considered as not only biochemical constants but as having a grammatical quality and informational content. We thus view the genetic phase as a language consisting of 1) units of the alphabet; 2) a vocabulary that includes meaningful items; and 3) context-sensitive rules for the formation of units based on grammatical categories. (Abstract excerpt)

Zolyan, Suren and Renad Zhdanov. Genome as (hyper)Text: From Metaphor to Theory. Semiotica. 225/1, 2018. Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kalingrad and Moscow State Pedagogical University senior scholars present a strongest claim to date of a natural identity between these preeminent generative codes. With a past reference to I. Kant and Johann Goethe, in our age of global communication a true “isomorphism” is evident for these informative processes. A common trait is their code script (Schrodinger) and sign system (semiotic) quality. A conclusion can then be stated. They are two prime manifest exemplars of an inherently literate cosmos. If we might fully appreciate, in closing a novel beneficial phase of “social genomics” is proposed.

The similarity between language and genetic information transmission has been recognized since molecular genetics was founded. Numerous attempts have been made to use linguistics techniques to decipher protein genes. However, this approach cannot describe a language nor the semantic and textual structures that are decisive for communication. A text should be regarded as an artifact of the creation, conservation and conveyance of information. A general theory should be capable of describing linguistic writings and the process of their structuring, functioning and transformation. A (hyper) text can be considered as a quasi-organism that possesses memory, creative-cognitive characteristics and communicative force, and a cell as a quasi-intelligence capable of manipulating semiotic entities. (Abstract excerpt)

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