Re: New Google Service Searches Only Science/Technical Fields

From: alexV (alexV7623_at_comcast.net)
Date: 11/19/04 

Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:10:23 -0500

"Jacques Guy" <jguy@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
news:419DBB43.51DF@alphalink.com.au...
> Rich Travsky wrote:
>
> [snip] (www.scholar.google.com)
>
> But when my first search took me to:
>
> "Reply to Li and Grosse's "Comments on 'Linguistic Features
> in Eukaryotic Genomes'""
>
> I suddenly knew that I had barged into a roomful of
> pseudo-scholarly intellectual wanking.

What is so "pseudo-" about it?

Genome is a code in one sense if we ignore physical/biological properties of
it. It is a language which has not been fully deciphered yet. It has its own
morphology and grammar as any other natural or artificial language e.g.
computer language. Statistical software used to analyze genomes has a lot in
common with that of the linguistics software.

Eukaryotic means having a nucleus. We are eukaryotic like all vertebrates
and even invertebrates. Bacteria are not. They are prokaryotic. They do not
have nuclei.

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