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As discussed in Section 2.6, Prigogine divides all structures in the

Universe into two categories — equilibrium structures (e.g., a table, salt

crystals, DNA sequence) and dissipative structures (the flame of a candle,

action potentials, life itself). In 2012 (see p. 17 in [25]), I divided dissipa-

tive structures further into two classes — self-organized (e.g., flame of

candle, etc. as before) and “other-organized” dissipative structures (e.g.,

the Bernard convection patterns, tornados), the former being driven by the

energy generated within the system such as from chemical reactions and

the latter driven by the energies provided from outside. Prigogine did not

distinguish between these two types of dissipative structures which can

lead to confusions. In my opinion, based on over four decades of experi-

mental and theoretical researches in biology, all organizations require

dissipation free energy under the control by relevant information (see

Section 2.9).

It seems that the sound-driven wave patterns (including CymaGlyphs;

see Figures 4.14 and 15) are examples of “other-organized” dissipative

structures, whereas the wave patterns generated in the Universe (e.g., the

helical spiral galaxies) and inside the living cells (e.g., intracellular cal-

cium ion waves) are examples of “self-organized” dissipative structures.

The main difference between “other-organized” (or “other-driven”) and

“self-organized” (or “self-driven”) wave patterns (or dissipative struc-

tures) may be that the former is dyadic in the sense that they are deter-

mined by the structure of the medium and environment, whereas the latter

is triadic in that they are determined by (a) the structure of the medium

(e.g., water or oil), (b) the topology of the environment (e.g., circular,

square, triangular, etc. dishes), and (c) the mechanism of energy genera-

tion (e.g., enzyme-catalyzed ATP production and hydrolysis).

Jeremy Pfeiffer carried out CymaScopic experiments with three dif-

ferent shapes of the dishes holding water (unpublished observations). In

the case of the CymaGlyphs measured with a triangulated dish, only one

or two out of six trails showed hexagonal patterns and the other seem to

show somewhat “triangulated” shapes. This trend was clearer with the

square dish, indicating that the morphology of CymaGlyphs reflects the

properties not only of the system of the medium (i.e., water), but also its

environment. In other words, the morphology of CymaGlyphs is the prop-

erty of the systome and not that of the system alone (Section 2.5).

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