Perhaps The Best Way To Characterize The Relationship Between DNA And Meaning Is To Say That DNA Is The Source Of Meaning.

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Perhaps the best way to characterize the relationship between DNA and meaning
is to say that DNA is the source of meaning. It takes information about the
environment and turns it into behaviour - thus realizing meaning in the
pragmatic sense of the word. DNA is the place where the two sides of meaning
meet, the place where reports become instructions. DNA is thus what first
gave meaning to life; or, perhaps, what first created meaning, and therefore
life, or what first created life, and therefore meaning. In any event, it is
very impressive stuff.
-- Robert Wright, Three Scientists and Their Gods

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