Cell Language Theory, The: Connecting Mind And Matter

188 The Cell Language Theory: Connecting Mind and Matter

b2861 The Cell Language Theory: Connecting Mind and Matter “6x9”

Both human and cell languages can be treated as 6-tuples, {L, W, S,

G, P, M}, where L is the alphabet, W is the lexicon, S is an arbitrary set of

sentences, G is a set of rules governing the formation of sentences from

words (called the first articulation) and the formation of words from let-

ters (the second articulation), P is a set of physical mechanisms necessary

and sufficient to implement a language, and finally M is a set of objects or

processes, both symbolic and material, referred to by words, sentences,

and their higher-order structures (e.g., texts). In Table 4.5, cell and human

languages are compared with respect to these components of the linguistic

6-tuple. Table 4.5 introduces two important concepts, conformons and

IDSs, which play fundamental roles in the Bhopalator model of the living

cell [7, 15, 16] (see Chapter 3).

4.5 Isomorphism Between the Immune System and

Human Language

In his Nobel Lecture entitled “The Generative Grammar of Immune

System” given in 1984 [72], Jerne described a theory of the immune

Figure 4.4 The structural similarity between humanese and cellese. Adopted from [19].

(a) A schematic representation of the structure of the human language according to Lyons

[247, 252]. Human language can be described in terms of two planes of expression

(or form) and content (or meaning), and two levels of sounds and words within the plane

of expression. The relations among phonology, grammar, and semantics are also shown.

(b) The structure of the cell language appears to be similar (or isomorphic) to that of the

human language, since we can recognize reasonable molecular counterparts in the cell

language that correspond to the structural components of the human language. That is,

there seems to be a 1-to-1 correspondence among the structural components of the two

languages. ITiS = information transfer in space; ITiT = information transfer in time.

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