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are quite different, since the genetic codons encode 20 amino acids,

while the I-Ching hexagrams encode basic archetypes in nature and

human affairs [275, 277]. These differences are diagrammatically

represented in the last row of Table 5.4. The former diagram may be

said to represent the quantitative regularities of living systems (as

reflected in the genetic codes of living cells), while the latter repre-

sents the qualitative regularities found in nature and the human soci-

ety. Since quantity and quality are complementary, so it may be

concluded that

The 64 genetic codons and the 64 I-Ching hexagrams are complemen-

tary aspects of reality. (5.7)

Statement (5.7) may lead to a further generalization:

Biology and philosophy capture the complementary

aspects of reality (5.8)

which may be the consequence of

Biology and mind are the complementary aspects of reality (5.9)

which may in turn be expressed as

Matter and mind are the complementary aspects of reality. (5.10)

Thus the principle that connects matter and mind may well turn out to

be the principle of complementarity (Section 2.4).

5.3 The Molecular Language (Moleculese)

As already indicated, it is important to recognize that, underlying the

four DNA bases (also referred to as nucleobases), G, A, T, and C, there

are three sets of what Petoukhov calls subalphabets and what I call the

Yin–Yang pairs as indicated in the first column of Table 5.5, of which

the first pair is the well-known Watson–Crick base pair characterized

by the different numbers of the hydrogen bonds connecting each pair

of bases — two hydrogen bonds between A and T and three hydrogen

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