392 The Cell Language Theory: Connecting Mind and Matterb2861 The Cell Language Theory: Connecting Mind and Matter “6x9”Table 9.3 The qualitative aspect of the ITR.
A B C ABC
Semiotics Object Representamen Interpretant Sign
Hinduism Brahma (creator) Vishnu (preserver) Shiva (transformer) Universe (?)
Christianity Jesus Father Holy Spirit God
Daoism Yin Dao Yang Ultimate reality (?)
Aristotle Matter Hylomorph Form Ultimate reality (?)
Spinoza Extension Substance Thought Ultimate reality (?)
Mathematics A B C Categoryhence ITR. All the qualitative relations that are irreducibly triadic can be
represented diagrammatically using the 3-node network shown in
Figure 9.2. Although the Christian trinity is used as a token of the ITR
type in Figure 9.3f, the 3-node network type is general and can be used to
represent many other ITRs as shown in Table 9.3 (see Table 6.10 for more
examples).
The concept of the atom was formulated by Greek philosophers more
than 2000 years ago but was not experimentally verified until the late-20th
century. Similarly, the notion of ITR, in the form of the golden ratio, was
recognized by Greek philosophers first in geometry more than two millen-
nia ago and was scientifically demonstrated in the 20th century to be
involved not only in the structure of the Milky Way Galaxy (Figure 9.3l),
but also in the workings of the human mind (or the structure of the Inner
Galaxy). It therefore appears that the truth can be accessed by the human
mind in at least two ways: through philosophical contemplation (inner
meditation or self-observation) and through scientific investigationsf g
NeuroanatomyNeural networkNeural Activity
(Long-term memory) (Working memory) (Behavior)h
Figure 9.12 Practopoiesis as semiosis. f = memory recall; g = anapoiesis; h = genetic con-
straint, genetic information flow. “anapoiesis” = a higher-order organization needed to produce
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