Nick, I could probably express my thoughts in *steam governor* talk, but since this week KenP has me thinking about RNA, I will try this other tack. Extensionally, ribosomes can be identified as functions taking RNA and returning useful proteins for an organism. Due to the constrained nature of the *mechanism*, only certain sequences of RNA bases correspond to proteins. Let us think of this correspondence as giving a semantics of sequences to proteins. Now, a virus can come along and hijack the protein production by sending RNA messages of its own, i.e., by operating within the constraints of the semantics and producing viable RNA sequences.
As another example, consider giving an order at a restaurant. When you perform this task, the waiter must decode the utterance into experiences they can reason about before they can carry out the order. More than just a transformation of pressure waves into the action of bringing you food, designations of meaning are non-arbitrarily selected from the context. -- Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
