Chapter 9: Genes, information, and semiosis
Chapter 9: Genes, information, and semiosis

Summary/Abstract: 1. What is genetic information? Let us now come back to the claims we put forward in the end of Ch. 6: Genes should be regarded as Signs in DNA, which can only have any effect on a cell through a triadic-dependent process (semiosis); this process is genetic information and involves more than just genes as Signs in DNA but also Objects and Interpretants; genetic information is the process by means of which a form in a Dynamical Object (a functional protein) is communicated to an Interpretant (the reconstruction of a specific sequence of amino acids in a cell) through Signs in DNA.

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