395“6x9” b2861 The Cell Language Theory: Connecting Mind and MatterChapter 10
The Philosophical Implications
of the Cell Language Theory
10.1 Complementarism
Complementarism is the philosophical framework constructed on the
basis of the assumption that the principle of complementarity advocated
by N. Bohr, based on the principles of quantum physics as interpreted by
him in the early decades of the 20th century, is a universal principle that
can be extended beyond physics to biology and philosophy [24, 43, 47].
The term complementarism was coined to represent this idea in 1991
independently by two individuals: A. Pais, the author of Nile’s Bohr’
Times [389], and myself [24]. The version of complementarism that
I began to develop in the 1970s is intrinsic to many philosophical systems,
including the Daoist philosophy, and is based on the realizations that
(a) information and energy are essential for explaining life, just as the
wave and particle properties are essential for explaining light (and other
quantum objects called “quons” [53] such as quarks, gluons, electrons,
protons, neutrons, etc.) and (b) a similar triadic relation (i.e., a relation
among three elements or entities).
If we designate the three entities appearing in quantum physics,
molecular biology, and Daoist philosophy as A, B, and C, we can formu-
late a 3 × 3 table as shown in Table 10.1. What is common among the threeb2861_Ch-10.indd 395 17-10-2017 12:13:24 PM