La biología como forma de representación: Wittgenstein y la partitura de la vida

Fernando Baquero, José Aguilar-Rodríguez, Andrés Moya

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Biology as a representation form: Wittgenstein and life´s score.

We consider here that the metaphor life’s score is more complex yet more precise than the classic book of life when facing the real difficulties in studying the predictive relevance of the decoding process of genetic language. One key epistemological problem lies on our capacity to clarify the relationships between the structure of a possible language (genetic and genomic sequences) and the vital characteristics of particular organisms that seem to be determined by such language. This is a typical reductionist problem: can life be understood by being reduced to a genetic-genomic language?

 

Key words: Book of life, musical score, life’s score, syntax, semantics, complexity, representation.


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