On the Role of Science in the Postindustrial Society: Logos, the Empire Builder
Marchetti, C., 1984 RR -84-11, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria Abstract The hypothesis that language and DNA represent two stages of the same evolutionary path is briefly
evaluated. Volterra equations, so useful in describing the dynamics of competing systems are, in fact, equally
efficientin describing social behavior, as shown in numerous examples. The emergence of language first, and
science later, interpeted as a metalanguage, are attributed to a"hypercyclization" of basic competing utterances in analogy of hypercyclization of quasi-species of replicating molecules in Manfed Eigen's theory of DNA development and evolution.
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