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From Matter to Form: the Evolution of the Genetic Code as Semio-Poiesis

Linguistic Frontiers, 2020-12, Vol.3 (2), p.44-56 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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From Matter to Form: the Evolution of the Genetic Code as Semio-Poiesis
Author: Zolyan, Suren
Subjects: ancestral genetic code ; codepoiesis ; doublet genetic code ; Genetic code ; grammar of the genetic code ; semio-poiesis
Is Part Of: Linguistic Frontiers, 2020-12, Vol.3 (2), p.44-56
Description: The code is meaningless unless translated. (Monod 1971, 143) We address issues of a description of the origin and evolution of the genetic code from the semiotics standpoint. Developing the concept of codepoiesis introduced by M. Barbieri, a new idea of semio-poiesis is proposed. Semio-poiesis, a recursive auto-referential processing of a semiotic system, becomes a form of organization of the bio-world when and while notions of meaning and aiming are introduced into it. The description of the genetic code as a semiotic system (grammar and vocabulary) allows us to apply the method of internal reconstruction to it: on the basis of heterogeneity and irregularity of the current state, to explicate possible previous states and various ways of forming coding and textualization mechanisms. The revealed patterns and irregularities are consistent with hypotheses about the origin and evolution of the genetic code.
Publisher: Sciendo
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 2544-6339
EISSN: 2544-6339
DOI: 10.2478/lf-2020-0014
Source: De Gruyter Open Access Journals

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