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- There are two main views in biology today: 'Life is Chemistry' and 'Life is Chemistry plus Information.'
- A third view, 'Life is Chemistry, Information and Meaning,' is less common but recognizes the existence of codes that create meaning in living systems.
- The author argues that as research progresses and more evidence about these biological codes emerges, they will eventually be included in academic literature, thus forming an important part of biology.
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Today there are two dominant paradigms in Biology: the idea that 'Life is Chemistry' and the idea that 'Life is Chemistry plus Information'. There is also a third paradigm, the idea that 'Life is Chemistry, Information and Meaning' but today this is a minority view, despite the fact that meaning is produced by codes and there is ample experimental evidence that hundreds of codes exist in living systems. This is because that evidence has not yet reached the university books, but what exists in nature is bound to exist, one day, also in our books and at that point the codes will become an integral part of biology. This paper is a brief description of the key concepts of that third paradigm that has become known as Code Biology.
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