The Biological “Invariant of Motion” vs. “Struggle for Life”? On the Possible Quantum Mechanical Origin and Evolution of Semiotic Controls in Biology

Abstract

A novel, alternative and deeper view to the "selfish gene" paradigm is presented, describable as the "selfish code" frame. Introducing it, we put forth a quantum mechanical algorithm as a new description of the intracellular protein synthetizing machinery. The successive steps of the algorithm are, tentatively, semiotic constraints of the well-known quantum mechanical molecular "internal measurement" type. It is proposed that this molecular algorithm mediates a quantum mechanical time reversed dynamics with a primordial special version of this latter molecular measurement type ("mixed measurement") as its origin. It is furthermore suggested that this intracellular regressive algorithmical dynamics is a component of biological "motion", the other, strongly coupled component being the macroscopic phenotypic motion. The biological "invariant of motion" of this hierarchically coupled overall generalized dynamics is suggested to be the evolutionally converged invariant genetic code vocabulary. It forms, possibly, the underlying internal "driving force" of evolution, as being "struggle for life".

On the Origin and Invariance of the Genetic Assignments as Elementary Semiotic Controls: A Basic Hypothesis

“…We report here in this study a possible origin, evolution and deeper and also perhaps wider biological function of semiotic controls in biological systems, dealt with in more detail in a previous paper [1]. The issue might be regarded as hypothetical in some respects, still, it might place fundamental molecular biological facts into a different light by outlining an "unorthodox" origin scenario.…”

“…This is true in particular since the genetic code assignments are "virtual", "abstract" entities (see [1,18] and below).…”

“…We suppose, along this line, that chemicalprotobiological evolution was a process of an "evolution of nonlinearity" from nonequilibrium thermodynamics [5] through the ultimate protobiological internal autocatalytic network [6] to the phenotype -mediated nonlinearity of the genetic code [1]. Though we do not provide a detailed stereochemical scenario [7], we hint that the latter had to come about in combination of the seemingly opposite view of the "frozen accident" events [8].…”

“…It can be shown [1] that the external pre -measurement "object" proto -RNA oligomers by the measurements, through the internal "device" proto -proteins (compare e. g. [10]), entered secondarily from the external world the internal quantally quasi -causal material macrocyclic autocatalytic network. They will act, through the immediate proto-proteins (with quasi -"sharp" coordinates), as intervening quantal, effective "quasi -causes" in relation to the latter, with the proto -proteins coupled to the internal quasi -"causal" polymeric network.…”

“…5.). Also, we would like to investigate here the origin and the consequences of pure physical, other than usual system theoretical, existence of hierarchic controls, of which the genetic code is the most ancient and elementary one, which thus has been termed by us as the "invariant of biological motion" [1].…”