isn't that a strange term? but do a google search on it and you'll find a wealth of contexts for the term. my guess is its fairly synonymous with analogical
here's another paper mentioning the "analogly coded" which i take to mean in one sense "alive" though perhaps it has more to do inside-outsides/outside-insides in a stricter sense.. you tell me! :) http://www.molbio.ku.dk/MolBioPages/abk/PersonalPages/Jesper/Surfaces.h tml > > > I'm just not sure what 'analogly coded' actually means. > > Thanks! - Alan > > > On Tue, 10 May 2005, Lanny Quarles wrote: > > > thought this bit about "code duality" and the biosemiotics take > > on the analog and the digital might be of interest here. > > Wonderful to read this kind of work Alan, Thanks! > > > > lq > > > > Life, then, exhibits a non-trivial, semiotic, interaction between two > > co-existing messages, the analogly coded message of the organism > > itself and its redescription in the digital code of DNA. This > > principle has been termed code-duality (Hoffmeyer and Emmeche 1991). > > As analogly coded messages the organisms recognise and interact with > > each other in the ecological space, while as digitally coded messages > > they (after eventual recombination through meiosis and fertilisation > > in sexually reproducing species) are passively carried forward in time > > between generations. The essence of heredity is ‘semiotic survival’ . > > > > The joint emergence on our planet of life and code-duality brought us > > from the sphere of difference to the sphere of distinction, i.e. > > information in the sense of Gregory Bateson's famous definition: "a > > difference which makes a difference" (Bateson 1970), which is in fact > > quite close to a sign in the sense of Peirce. Sebeok’s prophesy > > that “a full understanding of the dynamics of semiosis may in the last > > analysis turn out to be no less than the definition of life” is worth > > mentioning in this connection (Sebeok 1979). > > > > ( URLs/DVDs/CDroms/books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt ) ( URLs/DVDs/CDroms/books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt )
