Frédéric RimetDec 21, 2024
Un recueil de souvenirs de Theodore Monod, un des derniers naturaliste du muséum, qui a parcouru la planète et le désert pour inventorier sa diversité. Un humaniste, philosophe, pacifiste... Très inspirant !
#museum #nature #desert #philosoph #pacifism #mnhn #monod
TeixiMar 11, 2024

97yo genie #HHPattee published a chapter just few months ago in #OpenSemiotics vol4, in which expands & pushes his theoretical argumentation framework, embracing the recent biology research on #abiogenesis & spontaneous #folding

top quote:

» #RNATieClub did not discover the “mechanism” of the code because there was no #mechanism
The code is symbolic or “chemically gratuitous” in #Monod words
There was nothing to discover from laws or logical thinking «

https://www.academia.edu/114451075/Symbol_Grounding_by_Folding_The_Primary_Biosemiosis

#biosemiotics

Symbol Grounding by Folding: The Primary Biosemiosis

Interpretation of human language is an obscure process that constructs meaning from symbol vehicles. Less obscure is the symbol grounding of genetic language by copolymer folding. Folding is an energy-dependent dynamics that removes sequence