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human language, and (b) DNA carries three kinds of genes — the

lexical, the syntactic, and the semantic genes, which are identified,

respectively, with structural and associated regulatory genes, the

DNA as a whole, and the non-coding regions of DNA [21].

The concept of “semantic genes” postulated to reside in noncoding

regions is in part supported by the work of Amano et al. [256] showing that

noncoding regions may play functional roles, since the number of noncoding

bases per genome increases with the number of transcription factors per

structural genes in multicellular organisms but not in unicellular ones.

Semantic genes are thought to organize the expression of transcribable genes

(words) in time and space to generate what is referred to as “DNA sen-

tences”, a sequential exposure of a set of related structural genes in a time-

ordered manner to transcription factors and polymerases to effectuate their

expression, all driven and controlled by conformons, or SIDD’s of Benham.

Based on these evidences, it may be reasonably concluded that the

(genetic) information carried by DNA is comparable to “ideograms”

which hieroglyphs were once thought to be and the (conformational)

energy stored in DNA is comparable to “phonograms” (which Champollion

eventually discovered some of the hieroglyphs to be). All these analogies

and connections are summarized in Table 4.8.

Table 4.8 is consistent with Peircean semiotics, according to which (i)

a sign is anything that stands for something other than itself and (ii) a sign

consists in an irreducible triad of (a) the sign vehicle (also called sign or

representamen), (b) the object referred to by the sign vehicle, and (c) the

interpretant (i.e., whatever is induced by a sign in its receiver, which is

essential for making a connection between the sign and its object) (see

Section 6.3.1). We can represent this so-called Peircean sign triad geo-

metrically as shown in Figure 4.5.

The triangle represents the irreducibility of the three elements of the

sign. Using the same format, the following semiotic relation may be sug-

gested among some of the key elements of Table 4.8.

Figure 4.6 indicates that the three elements of DNA located at the

three vertices are irreducible similar to Figure 4.5 and suggests that the

human brain can be viewed as a Rosetta Stone, in which are represented

two kinds of glyphs — the known (e.g., the Celera Human Genome Map

written in humanese) and the unknown (i.e., the DNA text in the nucleus

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