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Still here. I'll try to find the notes I DO have on hand somewhere. One of
the things I remember trying to do was to organize the axes of the cube (and
thus the order of bases on each side) to maximally "balance" for both
base-pairings AND the two versus three ring character of the base.
We treat linerizations as if they were basic- yet I'm not totally convinced.
So I treated each axis as if it were simultaneously linear (in the code cube)
AND cyclic (to get the balance)- the snake bites its own tail. In many
perceptual systems, seemingly linear continuua have a linear segment broken
out of them, and then cyclicity is imposed by us. Witness the way we perceive
colors. There is a linear frequency cline, but we also have color
complementarity- think Munsell here. In sound there is octival structure. And
within it all complementarity rules. Harmony and clash. This was the
background against which I toyed with the genetic code.
Dealing with the axes of the cube as if they were cycles generates a
hypertorus. I still can't remember what I balanced what against- whether it
was the gas code or the ring number- and whether or not I kept the base
pairings apposed or made them opposed (though I think I did do this last, so
that apposed base pairs in the helix became opposed in the axial cyclic
representation, now that I think of it- kind of iconic). If I did then I
think I prioritized each of the cube axes differently, so that all possible
combinations of intersection were instantiated. Obviously I need to work on
this a bit.
Jess
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