Re: Phonosemantics and parallels in the genome (and elsewhere)

From: Gatherer, D. (Derek) (D.Gatherer@organon.nhe.akzonobel.nl)
Date: Mon Jan 22 2001 - 08:33:57 GMT

  • Next message: Vincent Campbell: "RE: Now They're Singing a Different Song" 

    Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id JAA14437 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 22 Jan 2001 09:42:46 GMT
Message-ID: <A4400389479FD3118C9400508B0FF230010D1A55@DELTA.newhouse.akzonobel.nl>
From: "Gatherer, D. (Derek)" <D.Gatherer@organon.nhe.akzonobel.nl>
To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Phonosemantics and parallels in the genome (and elsewhere)
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 09:33:57 +0100
X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk

    Jess:
    Ideally, what you get is this: in all base pairings, you have one singlet
    ring always apposed to a doublet ring. Then, on top of that (if I remember
    correctly- my notes have long been buried) you have, for one pair, O and N
    in
    one order, and in the other pair, in a different order (I believe that they
    were O,O versus N,N on one and something like N,O versus O,N on the other
    pair- can't remember).

    Derek:
    Let me see if I can try to get the detail. For an A-T pair, you have 2
    hydrogen bonds, and for a G-C pair you have 3 hydrogen bonds. I don't quite
    know what you mean by 'order'. Do you mean the order on the diagram in
    which the hydrogen bonds occur? If so, then you have:

    A-T pair: O-N, N-N
    G-C pair: O-N, N-N, O-N

    or do you mean the order moving along the ring diagram in which these atoms
    occur in each nucleotide? But that would give a different result for each
    nucleotide.

    More fundamentally, why is this a _code_? I can't get any further with your
    theory until you explain why these observations (if I've grasped them
    correctly) actually constitute a code of some sort. Can you give me an
    example of the translation table in your code?

    ===============================================================
    This was distributed via the memetics list associated with the
    Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission
    For information about the journal and the list (e.g. unsubscribing)
    see: http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit

    This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Mon Jan 22 2001 - 09:44:29 GMT