There is another (extremely faint) possibility: that we could learn to
read the phenotype off of the genotype without doing an isomorphic simu-
lation of the physical process of epigenesis, but by finding some simpler
sort of decoding mechanism. This could be called "shortcut pseudo-
epigenesis". Whether shortcut or not, pseudo-epigenesis is, of course, to-
tally beyond reach at the present time-with one notable exception: in the
species Felis catus, deep probing has revealed that it is indeed possible to
read the phenotype directly off of the genotype. The reader will perhaps
better appreciate this remarkable fact after directly examining the follow-
ing typical section of the DNA of Felis catus:... CA TCATCATCA TCATCA TCA TCA TCA TCA T ...
Below is shown a summary of the levels of DNA-readability, together
wiih the names of the different levels of decoding. DNA can be read as a
sequence of:(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)(N-l)
(N)bases (nucleotides) ........................ transcription
amino acids............................. .. translation
prote~ns (pri~ary structure) } ............ gene expression
protems (tertiary structure)
protein clusters ............ higher levels of gene expression
???} ................. unknown levels of DNA meaning
???
physical, mental, and
psychological traits .................... pseudo-epigenesisThe Central DogmapWith this background, now we are in a positIOn to draw an elaborate
comparison between F. Crick's "Central Dogma of Molecular Biology"
(.DOGMA I) upon which all cellular processes are based; and what I, with
poetic license, call the "Central Dogma of Mathematical Logic" (.DOGMA
II), upon which Godel's Theorem is based. The mapping from one onto
the other is laid out in Figure 99 and the following chart, which together
constitute the Central Dogmap.FIGURE 99. The Central Dogmap. An analogy is established between two fundamental
Tangled Hierarchies: that of molecular biology and that of mathematical logic.
(^532) Self-Ref and Self-Rep