x Prefaceb2861 The Cell Language Theory: Connecting Mind and Matter “6x9”My bio-theoretical research began in 1970 at the University of Wisconsin,
Madison, as a postdoctoral fellow under David E. Green (1910–1983), lead-
ing me to extend in 1970–1990 the wave–particle complementarity of Niels
Bohr (1889–1953) to include the information–energy complementarity as a
major postulate of molecular biology (see Section 2.9). Beginning in the
early 1990s, I came under the influence of the triadic model of the sign (see
Section 6.3) pioneered by the American chemist–logician–philosopher,
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914).
As argued in Section 10.21, it is my opinion that both Bohr’s comple-
mentarity and Peircean semiotics (the science of signs) may be viewed as
belonging to the category which I came to refer to as “triadic monism” to
which the relation among matter, body, and mind may also belong (see the
third row of Table P2).Table P2 Three possible relations among matter, body, and mind.
(1) A linear model
a = biological evolution
b = mental evolutionMatter abBody Mind(2) Complementary model
a = physical aspect
b = mental aspectMatterab
Body Mind
(3) Peircean triadic model
f = physical evolution
g = mental evolution
h = information flow
cosmological codef g
Matter Body Mind
(Object)(Sign)(Interpretant)h
Note: (1) The linear model suggests that matter determines the human body which in turn determines
the mind. (2) The complementary model suggests that both body and mind are two irreconcilably
opposite aspects of matter such that matter appears as body or as mind, depending on how it is expe-
rienced. (3) The triadic monism (see Section 10.21) states that matter, body, and mind are ontologi-
cally one and inseparably fused but appears to human mind as a series of tree entities connected
either diachronically as in the linear model or as synchronically as in the complementary model (see
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