Eerie Thoughts

The meaning of what I am saying here is decoupled from any order imposed by the physical or chemical medium upon which these words you are reading appear. This is what is essential to the meaning existing.

Likewise, when you look at DNA there is meaning for us in there only to the extent that the structure of the molecule is not due to its chemical constituents. The DNA molecule is not like ordinary molecules, where the structure is due to maximizing stability. That is why the DNA can be code.

Code in the natural order has a meaning that itself is an emergent property beyond the impositions of the physical universe.