Month: September 2022

TEXT RULES. “The biocommunicative approach investigates communication processes within and among cells, tissues, organs and organisms as sign-mediated interactions, and nucleotide sequences as code, i.e. language-like text, which follows in parallel three kinds of rules: combinatorial (syntactic), context-sensitive (pragmatic), and content-specific (semantic).” https://lnkd.in/e3YfQQZ View in LinkedIn

THE THESIS. “Beyond Neo-Darwinism and Neo-Lamarckism: Evolution by genome editing. I present an initial thesis that suggests that the genesis of new species, genera, and realms of organisms does not occur in any neo-Darwinistic sense via “chance mutations” and their “selections”, but via a kind of innovation code (evolution code, creation code, text-generating code), which is capable of DNA/RNA text editing.” https://lnkd.in/e3YfQQZ View in LinkedIn

TWO CODES. “It turns out that the genetic code that encodes proteins - practically the sole subject of current bioengineering - is only a kind of structuring vocabulary, and not a complete structure in itself, and is subject to a higher-order regulatory code that lies hidden in the non-protein-coding regions of the DNA, which have been identified as RNA agents many years later.” https://lnkd.in/e3YfQQZ View in LinkedIn

ALTERNATIVE VIEW. “The fact that such meta-DNA characteristics - together with a DNA text-editing function that can code for influences on organisms such as stress (hormonal, neuronal, viral, bacterial, or inflammatory) - could exist was (and still is) barely imaginable for most scientists, who still believed in the central dogma of molecular biology: DNA/RNA/proteins/anything else.” https://lnkd.in/e3YfQQZ View in LinkedIn

IMPACT OF EPIGENETICS. “However, with the rise of epigenetics, it has become understandable how completely different reading processes of one and the same genetic data set can produce completely different “protein meanings”. https://lnkd.in/e3YfQQZ View in LinkedIn

POSTULATES. “Living nature is structured and organized linguistically and communicatively. This theory of communicating living nature postulates: (1) that every living being is involved in intra-, inter- and transorganismic communication processes without which any living being would not be able to live; and (2) evolution in its decisive steps is regulated and constituted by a higher order genome function.” https://lnkd.in/e3YfQQZ View in LinkedIn

SOCIAL LIFE OF BACTERIA. “Using “advanced linguistic capabilities, bacteria can lead rich social lives for the group benefit. They can develop collective memory, use and generate common knowledge, develop group identity, recognize the identity of other colonies, learn from experience to improve themselves, and engage in group decision-making, an additional surprising social conduct that amounts to what should most appropriately be dubbed as social intelligence”.” https://lnkd.in/e3YfQQZ View in LinkedIn

NOT STOCHASTIC. “In the framework of a linguistically and communicatively structured and organized living nature, evolution cannot be a process of chance mutations that are then selected; the evolutionary process is not subject to the strict mechanics of natural laws.” https://lnkd.in/e3YfQQZ View in LinkedIn

EVOLUTION. “Rather, it is a process that follows linguistic and communicative rules, to which organisms have developed or can develop a relationship of adherence or non-adherence.” https://lnkd.in/e3YfQQZ View in LinkedIn

HYBRID GENOMES. “The key steps of evolution - as the SET (Serial Endosymbiotic Theory of Lynn Margulis) has demonstrated - are a union process of formerly independent gene bearers into integrated genomes.” https://lnkd.in/e3YfQQZ View in LinkedIn