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of two radically different languages — the macro-language identifiable

with the human language (called humanese for convenience) and the micro-

language called cell language or cellese [19–23]. Another key objective of

this book is to provide plausible molecular mechanisms that connect

humanese and cellese based on a set of common physicochemical and semi-

otic principles. In the following quote, Saussure [245] provided a clear sci-

entific description of the interpersonal communication in 1916:

“In order to separate from the whole of speech the part that belongs to

language, we must examine the individual act from which the speaking-

circuit can be reconstructed. The act requires the presence of at least two

persons; that is the minimum number necessary to complete the circuit.

Suppose two people, A and B, are conversing with each other. Suppose that

the opening of the circuit is in A’s brain, where mental facts (concepts) are

associated with representations of the linguistic sounds (sound-images)

that are used for their expression. A given concept unlocks a corresponding

sound-image in the brain; this purely psychological phenomenon is fol-

lowed in turn by a physiological process: the brain transmits an impulse

corresponding to the image to the organs used in producing sounds. Then

the sound waves travel from the mouth of A to the ear of B: a purely physi-

cal process. Next, the circuit continues in B, but the order is reversed: from

the ear to the brain, the physiological transmission of the sound-image; in

the brain, the psychological association of the image with the correspond-

ing concept. If B then speaks, the new act will follow — from his brain to

A’s — exactly the same course as the first act and pass through the same

successive phases, which I shall diagram as follows.” (See the figure in the

top of Table 4.1.) (4.7)

I provided one of the first, if not the first, molecular theory of cellese

in 1997 [19]. At the both macro- and micro-scales, the communication

processes appear to obey a common principle of the irreducible triadic

relation (ITR) indicated in the bottom row of Table 4.1. ITR is discussed

in more detail in Chapter 9.

There are at least three possible relations between the macro- and

micro-communications:

(i) micro-communication is primary and macro-communication is

derived from it,

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