Waves as the Symmetry Principle Underlying Cosmic, Cell, and Human Languages

Abstract

Abstract:In 1997, the author concluded that living cells use a molecular language (cellese) that is isomorphic with the human language (humanese) based on his finding that the former shared 10 out of the 13 design features of the latter. In 2012, the author postulated that cellese and humanese derived from a third language called the cosmic language (or cosmese) and that what was common among these three kinds of languages was waves-i.e., sound waves for humanese, concentration waves for cellese, and quantum waves for cosmese. These waves were suggested to be the symmetry principle underlying cosmese, cellese, and humanese. We can recognize at least five varieties of waves-(i) electromagnetic; (ii) mechanical; (iii) chemical concentration; (iv) gravitational; and (v) probability waves, the last being non-material, in contrast to the first four, which are all material. The study of waves is called "cymatics" and the invention of CymaScope by J. S. Reid of the United Kingdom in 2002 is expected to accelerate the study of waves in general. CymaScope has been used to visualize not only human sounds (i.e., humanese) but also sounds made by individual cells (cellese) in conjunction with Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) (unpublished observations of J. Gimzewski of UCLA and J. Reid). It can be predicted that the gravitational waves recently detected by the Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) will be visualized with CymaScope one day, thereby transforming gravitational waves into CymaGlyphs. Since cellese in part depends on RNA concentration waves (or RNA glyphs) and humanese includes hieroglyphs that were decoded by Champollion in 1822, it seems reasonable to use cymaglyphs, RNA glyphs, and hieroglyphs as symbols of cosmese, cellese, and humanese, respectively, all based on the principle of waves as the medium of communication.

Sociotype and cultural evolution: The acceleration of cultural change alongside industrial revolutions

“…To reiterate, our social relationships mobilize an "attention economy" with mechanisms similar (actually prior) to our monetary economy and to other competitive domains, as already hinted by H. Simon (Simon, 1971;Gonçalves et al, 2011) and by other relevant authors (Kahneman, 1973;Pashler, 1998;Dukas, 2004). This is precisely the sense of the Planckian competitive 'econophysics' or optimizing selection processes amongst competing distribution possibilities, as highlighted by (Ji, 2017), which is also present in a number of biological and social phenomena: protein folding, RNA metabolism, enzyme catalysis, T-cell receptor diversity, fMRI records, human decision making, econometric distributions, human communication, spoken and written language, etc. Derived from the resolution of the "econophysics" ultraviolet catastrophe, it represents the degree of organization (and hence of order) of a physical/biological/social system resulting from symmetry-breaking selection events applied to some randomly available (and hence symmetrically distributed) processes.…”

Fundamental, Quantitative Traits of the “Sociotype”

“…To reiterate, our social relationships mobilize an "attention economy" with mechanisms similar to our everyday monetary economy and other competitive domains, as already pointed out by H. Simon (Simon, 1971;Lanham, 2006;Gonçalves et al, 2011). This is precisely the sense of the Planckian competitive 'econophysics' or 'selection processes' highlighted by Ji (2017), which is manifest in a number of biological and social phenomena we have already mentioned, including written and spoken language. In general, it represents the degree of organization (and hence of order) of a physical/biological/social system resulting from symmetry-breaking selection events applied to some randomly available (and hence symmetrically distributed) processes.…”

“…More in general, these results concur with existing literature on the influence on specific life events on relational patterns (Wellman, 2007;Bidart and Charbonneau, 2011; Hollstein, 2011). Intriguingly, in relation to the non-Gaussian distribution we have obtained for both the number of social contacts and the associated conversation time, we have explored the plausibility of a recently proposed fit which dovetails with the functioning of an "attention economy": the Planckian distribution equation (Ji, 2017).…”

“…Insensibly, all our contacts and communicative action participate in the general competition for attention. Therefore, taking into account that, theoretically, the PDE was originated in the resolution of the "econophysics" ultraviolet catastrophe (Ji, 2017), it is no wonder that in comparison with the 'incomplete' power law the Planckian law may hold advantageously in multiple self-organizing realms where direct competition dominates: atomic As we have already argued [1, 4.1], there have been many discussions and hypothesis on the nature of social networks and the different sizes that can be expected, even more taking into account the new communication/bonding varieties around "artificial social networks".…”

“…physics, protein folding, RNA metabolism, enzyme catalysis, T-cell receptor diversity, fMRI records, human decision making, econometrics, human communication, and so on(Ji, 2017).…”