DNA Information: Laws of Perception (SpringerBriefs in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)

This book explores the double coding property of DNA, which is manifested in the digital and analog information types as two interdependent codes. This double coding principle can be applied to all living systems, from the level of the individual cell to entire social systems, seen as systems of communication. Further topics discussed include the ubiquitous problem of logical typing, which reflects our inherent incapacity to simultaneously perceive discontinuity and continuity, the problem of time, and the peculiarities of autopoietic living systems. It is shown that the scientific “truths” that appear to be coherent constructions connecting the scientifically verified observations by the rules of logic are in fact always relative and never absolute.

本書探討了DNA的雙重編碼特性，這一特性表現為兩種相互依賴的數字和類比信息類型的編碼。這種雙重編碼原則可以應用於所有生命系統，從個體細胞的層面到整個社會系統，被視為通信系統。進一步討論的主題還包括普遍存在的邏輯分類問題，這反映了我們內在的無法同時感知不連續性和連續性的能力，時間問題以及自我生成的生命系統的特殊性。本書指出，科學上的“真理”似乎是連貫的構造，通過邏輯規則將科學上驗證的觀察結果相連，但實際上這些“真理”總是相對的，而非絕對的。