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phenomenon of “third articulation”, defined as a sequential arrangement

of sentences to form texts. If the isomorphism thesis between cell and

human language is valid, there should exist the third articulation in cell

language as well. It is proposed here that the third articulation in cell lan-

guage can be identified with space- and time-dependent changes in con-

centrations or diffusible molecules or mechanical strains (known as

conformons) inside the cell. Such dynamic structures were referred to as

IDSs (intracellular dissipative structures) in the Bhopalator model of the

living cell [15; 25, Chapter 10] (see Chapter 3).

These three articulations in cell and human languages are compared

in Table 4.7.

4.7 Decoding DNA Based on the Semiotic Lessons Learned

from Decoding the Rosetta Stone

With the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2001 [254], the

genome map such as the Celera Genome Map is now practically in every

biologist’s fingertip. A similar situation might have transpired in the early

19th century when Egyptologists all over Europe received a copy of the

picture or some replica of the Rosetta Stone discovered by Napoleon’s

Table 4.7 Triple articulations in cell and human languages.

1. Key material
   component

Book DNA

2. Size of signs Macroscopic (e.g., words) Microscopic (e.g., molecules)


3. Reader/effector Human brain The cell


4. First articulation Words → Sentences Non-covalent structures (e.g.,
   protein conformations)


5. Second
   articulation

Letters → Words Covalent structures (e.g., protein

primary structures)

6. Third
   articulation

Sentences → Texts Dissipative structures (e.g.,

transmembrane ion gradients,

membrane potentials, intracellular

cytoskeleton stress gradients,

mRNA concentration gradients

and waves, etc.)

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