THE ORGANIC CODES
INTRODUCTION CHAPTER THE MICROSCOPE AND THE CELL THE CELL THEORY, THE PROBLEM OF GENERATION, THE PROBLEM OF EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT, THE TWO VERSIONS OF THE CELL THEORY, MECHANISM, THE CHEMICAL MACHINE, THE COMPUTER MODEL, THE AUTOPOIETIC CELL, THE EPIGENETIC CELL, THEORIES OF EVOLUTION TRADITIONAL BIOLOGY, LAMARCK’S CONTRIBUTION, DARWIN’S BET, NATURAL SELECTION, ORGANS OF EXTREME PERFECTION, COMMON DESCENT, THE SECOND MECHANISM OF EVOLUTION, THE MODERN SYNTHESIS, MOLECULAR EVOLUTION, THE THIRD MECHANISM OF EVOLUTION, MACROEVOLUTION, WHERE IS BIOLOGY GOING TO? CONTENTS CHAPTER A NEW MODEL FOR BIOLOGY THE LOGIC OF EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT, RECONSTRUCTIONS FROM INCOMPLETE PROJECTIONS, A MEMORY-BUILDING APPROACH, THE ALGEBRAIC METHOD, THE THEORETICAL LIMIT, ART: AN ITERATIVE ALGEBRAIC METHOD, THE MEMORY MATRIX, DENSITY MODULATION, MRM: THE FAMILY OF MEMORY ALGORITHMS, THE TWO GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF MRM, ORGANIC CODES AND ORGANIC MEMORIES THE CHARACTERISTICS OF CODES, THE ORGANIC CODES’ FINGERPRINTS, THE BRIDGE BETWEEN GENES AND ORGANISM, THE SPLICING CODES, THE SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION CODES, CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION, DETERMINATION AND CELL MEMORY, THE OTHER FACE OF PATTERN, HINTS FROM DEVELOPING NEURONS, THE KEY STRUCTURES OF EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT, THE ORIGIN OF LIFE THE PRIMITIVE EARTH, CHEMICAL EVOLUTION, POSTCHEMICAL EVOLUTION, THE METABOLISM PARADIGM, THE REPLICATION PARADIGM, THE RNA WORLD, REPLICATION CATASTROPHES, EIGEN’S PARADOX, THE RIBOTYPE THEORY, THE GENETIC CODE, EVOLUTION OF THE CODE, THE RIBOTYPE METAPHOR, COPYMAKERS AND CODEMAKERS, THE HANDICAPPED REPLICATOR, CONTENTS CHAPTER PROKARYOTES AND EUKARYOTES THE POTASSIUM WORLD, TWO FORMS OF LIFE, THREE PRIMARY KINGDOMS, THE LAST COMMON ANCESTOR, THE ORIGINS OF BACTERIA, THE CYTOSKELETON, THE COMPARTMENTS, CHROMOSOMES, THE SEVEN KINGDOMS, THREE THOUSAND MILLION YEARS, THE CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION THE FOSSIL RECORD, THE EXPERIMENTAL DATA, BODY PLANS AND PHYLOTYPIC STAGES, THE TRADITIONAL EXPLANATIONS, THE CAMBRIAN SINGULARITY, THE STUMBLING-BLOCK, THE RECONSTRUCTION MODEL, MULTICELLULAR STRUCTURES, BIOLOGICAL MEMORIES, A NEW MODEL OF THE CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION, THE CONSERVATION OF THE PHYLOTYPIC STAGE, SEMANTIC BIOLOGY THE SEMANTIC THEORY OF THE CELL, THE SEMANTIC THEORY OF EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT, THE MIND PROBLEM, THE SEMANTIC THEORY OF MENTAL DEVELOPMENT, ARTIFACTS AND NATURAL SELECTION, THE SEMANTIC THEORY OF EVOLUTION, ABOUT ORGANIC CODES, THE LANGUAGE MODEL, THE INDIVIDUALITY THESIS, THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEMANTIC BIOLOGY, A BRIEF SUMMARY THE FIRST PRINCIPLE, THE SECOND PRINCIPLE, THE THIRD PRINCIPLE, THE FOURTH PRINCIPLE, THE FIRST MODEL, THE SECOND MODEL, THE THIRD MODEL, THE FOURTH MODEL, CONCLUSION,