Cell Language Theory, The: Connecting Mind And Matter

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

Since the Brusselator and all its token self-organizing chemical reactions

are capable of semiosis (i.e., “undergoing irreducibly triadic process”) as

shown above, it would be logical to conclude that all self-organizing chemi-

cal reactions are associated with primitive “thoughts” or “minds” of their

own. This does not mean that all chemical reactions can be considered to

have thoughts, since not all chemical reactions undergo irreducibly triadic

processes, just as not all utterances from the human mouth can carry mean-

ingful information.

9.4.4 Enzyme Catalysis

The example of ITR that follows the nonenzymic BZ reaction in the scale

of complexity is suggested to be the enzyme-catalyzed chemical reaction

which can be represented as shown in Figure 9.10 where conformons are

postulated to play a fundamental role as the source of free energy and

control information needed for catalysis. Conformons are defined as the

mechanically strained conformations of proteins that possess both

f g

Amino Acid Sequence Conformons Catalysis

h

Figure 9.10 Enzyme catalysis seen as semiosis. f = protein folding; g = generalized

Franck–Condon principle (GFCP) [25, pp. 21–4] (see Section 2.7); h = information flow

(supported by the free energy dissipation accompanying steps f and g). This sequence of

events is an example of Conformon Mechanisms of Molecular Functions (CMMF)

explained in Process (9.12) and Figure 9.4.

f g

h

(A+B) -----------> (X+Y) -----------> (D+E)

Figure 9.9 The Brusselator as a semiosic process and hence a member of the ur-category.

f = sign production step, g = sign interpretation step, h = information flow (i.e., the struc-

tures of E and D are determined by those of A and B mediated by X and Y).

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