| | Abstract for Manuscript Number [425] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | Such a proposal gains some support from the recent finding that living cells use a language whose properties are similar in principle to those of human language (S. Ji, BioSystems 44:17-39 (1997); Ann. |
 | | One of such principles is the so-called 'rule-governed creativity,' according to which the human brain (the cell) can produce an almost infinite number of meaningful sentences (protein-protein interactions) based on a finite set of words or the lexicon (proteins) and grammatical rules (specificity of molecular interactions). |
 | | Material systems that exhibit rule-governed creativity are referred to as 'creatons,' examples of which include biopolymers, metabolic networks (metabolons), cells, multicellular organisms, groups of organisms, and the biosphere. |
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