Abstract. From ancient times it was thought that the codes and conventions are the basis of all cultural phenomena, and they have divided the world culture from the world of nature. The nature is governed by objective immutable laws, wherea s the culture is produced by mutable conventions of the human mind. However, the discovery of the genetic code in the early 1960s, like a bolt from the blue, shown that the barrier between nature and culture does not exist. It turned out that the genetic c ode, in its essence, is a metaphor, a secondary structure such as a computer program which allows us to represent the physical and chemical properties of molecules writing only the binary numbers. …