428 The Cell Language Theory: Connecting Mind and Matterb2861 The Cell Language Theory: Connecting Mind and Matter “6x9”Chapter 9). The value of the parameters of the ur-category, A, B, C, f, g,
and h, are determined by the nature of the domain of the human knowl-
edge to which the ITR template/framework is applied.
It may be that one of the simplest material processes that embodies
ITR is BZ reaction extensively studied in chemistry since its discovery
in Russia in the 1950s. As shown in Section 9.4.3, BZ reaction consists
of four elementary steps involving two reactants, A and B, two prod-
ucts, D and E, and two transient intermediates, X and Y (see Figure 9.8).
In Figure 9.9, I applied the concept of ITR to the mechanism of the BZ
reaction, which is reproduced in Figure 10.19 with some additional
comments.
The example of ITR that follows the nonenzymic BZ reaction in com-
plexity is suggested to be an enzyme-catalyzed chemical reaction (see
Figure 9.10 in Section 9.4.4), which is reproduced in Figure 10.20 with
additional comments on the role of conformons in enzyme catalysis.
Gene expression can also be thought to exhibit ITR as shown in
Figure 10.21. Since each arrow in Figure 10.21 involves enzyme catalysis
as depicted in Figure 10.20, Figure 10.21 encloses Figure 10.20 reminis-
cent of the nested Russian doll, matryoshka [407].
As Nikolic pointed out in [388], anapoiesis bridges two time domains —
relatively slow process of forming neural networks and very fast neural
firing activities constituting behavior (see step g in Figure 10.18). I con-
sidered a similar problem in 2012 [25] and came to the conclusion, based
on the GFCP (Section 2.7) imported from quantum mechanics, that such
kinetically disparate processes can be coupled only if the slow process
precedes the fast one (see Figure 15.21, p. 569, in [25]).
Nikolic’s anapoiesis [388] reminds me of the well-known linguistic
principle, the principle of rule-governed creativity (PRGC; see Section
4.2.2). PRGC captures the property of a language, which enables native
speakers to construct an indefinitely large number of sentences out of a
finite number of elements and to understand them even when encounter-
ing them for the first time. According to the cell language theory [19–23],
PRGC operates in living systems ranging from DNA (d) to RNA (r), pro-
teins (p), metabolic network (m), cells (c), organs (o), and whole animals (a),
leading to the coining of the terms d-, r-, p-, m-, c-, o-, and a-creatons,
where creatons are defined as the physicochemical systems capable of
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