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the role of electromagnetism in the Internet (see row 3), which seems

consistent with the Water Thesis described in Statement (4.33).

4.18 Cosmic Language (Cosmese) as the Irreducible Triad of

Wave Language (CymaGlyphs), Cell Language (e.g., RNA

glyphs), and Human Language (e.g., Hieroglyphs)

The study of waves is called “cymatics”. Many interesting demonstra-

tions of standing waves generated by vibrating surfaces are available on

the Internet (e.g., see Figure 4.13). When the solid surfaces employed in

generating the so-called Chladni figures (i.e., standing waves of particles

on solid surfaces or drum heads) are replaced by water, amazingly

detailed wave forms can be visualized (Figure 4.14), and this was made

possible by the invention of CymaScope [493]. I agree with Reid that the

invention of CymaScope may turn out to be akin to the inventions of the

telescope for astronomy and the microscope for biomedical sciences,

and the area of investigations opened up by CymaScope, I suggest, may

be the “cosmic linguistics”, or the study of cosmese. I postulate that the

medium of cosmese is “cosmic waves”, in which I include (i) the strong,

(ii) electroweak, (iii) sound, (iv) chemical concentration, and (v) gravi-

tational waves.

In other words, I am assuming that, in agreement with Herbert [53],

waves are a new language and as such can be both the medium and the

message if the McLuhan equation (asserting that the Medium = the

Message) can be applied here. Examples of “wave messages” are pro-

vided by the last panel in Figure 1.14 where the “meaning” of the first

“wave message” is the “relaxed waking state” of the human brain, that of

the second “wave message” is the actively functioning human brain, etc.

Furthermore, if waves are a language, they must embody Irreducible

Triadic Relation (ITR) just as Peircean signs are (Figure 4.16).

Cell language (cellese) as a type includes the tokens of DNA glyphs

(i.e., genes), RNA glyphs (i.e., transcripts), “proteoglyphs” (i.e., function-

ally folded proteins), and “chemoglyphs”, i.e., the chemical concentration

gradients localized at specific sites ad specific times inside the cell, most

likely driven by corresponding concentration waves or resonances. In

analogy to “aquaporins” [509], the standing waves in water were referred

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