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A note on layer-cake communication systems and protocols

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There is a live exchange on the molecular nanotech communication systems in the cell that is trying to reduce them to Chemistry; where a chemical reaction is a physical process. Accordingly, I beg to remind one and all regarding layered communication systems and protocols:

This is an elaboration of the general communication system:

A communication system

Here is how Yockey summarised it:

Yockey’s analysis of protein synthesis as a code-based communication process

Where, the standard genetic code [one of about two dozen dialects] reads like:

The Genetic code uses three-letter codons to specify the sequence of AA’s in proteins and specifying start/stop, and using six bits per AA

The double helix:

As was noted by Crick, right from the outset:

Crick’s letter

In context:

Now, we can see for ourselves just how desperate objectors to the design inference must be in the face of the point that D/RNA expresses a string data structure carrying a prong-height-based alphanumeric, 4 state per character code that uses chemical interactions and geometry at physical level. It uses the code to address algorithms for protein synthesis. Thus, strings, codes, algorithms [which are goal directed], so too, language.

All of this is an exceedingly strong sign of intelligent design. END