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occurring within individual neurons to get coordinated and organized in

the brain to effect human reasoning.

If these arguments are valid, the following conclusions may be drawn:

(1) A new category of structures (called dissipative structures) must be

invoked before biologists can account for the workings of the living

cell (e.g., mitosis, morphogenesis, signal transduction, etc.), just as

physicists had to invoke the notion of strong force (in addition to

electromagnetic and weak forces) before they could explain the struc-

tural stability of atomic nuclei [194].

(2) Reasoning process is not unique to the human brain but can be mani-

fested by cellular and abiotic systems meeting certain functional

requirements. The postulated ability of the cell to reason seems con-

sistent with the isomorphism thesis between cell and human lan-

guages [19–23], since, without being “rational”, no human or cell can

be expected to be able to use a language.

(3) Humans can reason (i.e., the Thirdness phenomenon exists in the

human brain), only because cells and abiotic systems in nature in

general behave rationally (at least some of the time and not chaoti-

cally), i.e., the Thirdness phenomenon exists in Nature, independent

of human mind. The universality of Thirdness asserted here may be

closely related to what Rosen called Natural Law that guarantees the

ability of human mind to model nature [195].

3.2.20 The Piscatawaytor: A Model of the Human Body Viewed

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According to a recent estimate, there are about 40 trillion (4 × 1013 ) cells

in the human body [196]. In order for the human body to be able to

maintain its various physiological functions under constantly changing

environmental conditions, it is obvious that the component cells of the

human body must communicate with one another and coordinate their

molecular and cellular activities [7]. The cells in the human body can be

grouped into five major classes designated as (i) M (motion or muscular

system), (ii) N (nervous system), (iii) C (circulatory system), (iv) E

(endocrine system), and (v) I (immune system) (see Figure 3.25). These

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