Cell Language Theory, The: Connecting Mind And Matter

Cell Language 201

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

Table 4.12 The postulated analogy between the unsolvability of the fifth-degree

polynomial equations and the unpredictability of the 3D structures of proteins based on

their amino acid sequence data.

Theory of Algebraic

Equations

Theory of Protein Folds/

Functions

Solved What is Fourth-degree

polynomial

equations

2D structures

By whom Ancient

mathematicians

Computational biologists of the

20th century

Unsolvable What is Fifth-degree

polynomial

equations

3D structures based on amino

acid sequence information

Proved by N. H. Abel in 1824 A. Valencia and others in 2005 (?)

Why unsolvable

Explained by

E. Galois in 1846 Living systems are rule-

governed creative systems

(21st century) [19]

New theory

emerging

Group theory A Theory of Everything (e.g.,

the Tarragonator [253])

Table 4.13 A postulated relation among physics, biology, and linguistics.

Relative Contributions of

Physics

(Law-governed)

Biology

(Matter/Symbol

Complementary)

Linguistics

(Rule-governed)

Laws (governing Matter/

Energy)

+ + + + + + + + +

Rules (encoded in Symbols,

carriers of Information)

+ + + + + + + + +

One possible explanation for why the protein structures and functions

cannot be predicted based on their amino acid sequence data alone may

be that biology is a complementary union of the predictable (the domain

of physics) and the unpredictable or the creative (the domain of linguis-

tics; cf. the rule-governed creativity [19, 267] and Section 4.2.2). This

idea is summarized in Table 4.13, which includes the concept of matter–

symbol complementarity advanced by H. Pattee over the last three decades

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