<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The code is meaningless unless translated. (Monod 1971, 143)</p><p>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.</p></abstract>

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.

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

Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law

Linguistic Frontiers

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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...

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

Publié en ligne: 31 déc. 2020

Pages: 44 - 56

Reçu: 01 juil. 2020

Accepté: 01 sept. 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/lf-2020-0014

Mots clés
Genetic code, codepoiesis, semio-poiesis, ancestral genetic code, doublet genetic code, grammar of the genetic code

© 2020 Suren Zolyan, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

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

Publié en ligne: 31 déc. 2020

Pages: 44 - 56

Reçu: 01 juil. 2020

Accepté: 01 sept. 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/lf-2020-0014

Mots clésGenetic code, codepoiesis, semio-poiesis, ancestral genetic code, doublet genetic code, grammar of the genetic code

© 2020 Suren Zolyan, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
Genetic code, codepoiesis, semio-poiesis, ancestral genetic code, doublet genetic code, grammar of the genetic code