Duality
Duality

Summary/Abstract: In the poetic citation above, Jesper Hoffmeyer has created a semiotic genesis fable – one which singles out the creation of an inheritable memory storage system, free from the constraints of physical laws, as the most important invention in the creation of life. In this view, the innovation of “digitality” facilitated the first equilibrium between the primordial membrane systems – which had previously communicated exclusively by analog codes – and started the endless evolution of punctuated equilibria. Now, 4 billion years later, in all living cells, we witness the outcome of this fortunate accident in its modern semiotic system of interconnected, but functionally separated, Digital and Analog codes.

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