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It may be further speculated that

The world embodies the irreducible triadic relation (ITR) of the physi-

cal, the mental, and the structural and hence is intrinsically conscious

and mindful: ITR and Mind refer to the same phenomenon. (10.16)

Although Burgin [37] did not explicitly mention Peirce’s ITR in his

writings, it is clear to me that his existential triad embodies ITR, since in

our personal communications, Burgin repeatedly emphasized the fact that

not all triplets are triads. The former may correspond to Peirce’s degener-

ate triads and the latter to his genuine triads.

10.6 The Triadic Architectonics of Human Knowledge

Newton and Einstein [565] once thought that light was a stream of par-

ticles; Huygens and Bohr were convinced that light was waves. Newer

generations of physicists explored both points of view and discovered

the principle of wave–particle duality, also called wave–particle com-

plementarity [47, 565].

Semiotics, the study of signs and their actions dating back to antiq-

uity in human history and revitalized by J. Poinsoit (1589–1644) and

C. S. Peirce (1839–1914) [281], may undergo a similar transition in

the 21st century as physics did in the 20th century, so that, just as the

Newtonian mechanics was transformed into quantum mechanics,

the Peircean semiotics may be transformed into a new version that may

be named the “neo-semiotics”, or more generally “gnergetics”, defined

as the scientific study of information–energy or gnergy (see Section

2.9). A similar view was recently expounded by Josephson [238] (see

the Josephson thesis, (4.8)). Since all human knowledge is represented

by signs and all signs are irreducibly triadic (see Section 9.1), it is not

surprising that all human knowledge embody ITR, as exemplified in

Table 10.3. In other words, the overarching principle underlying Table

10.3 can be identified with the principle of irreducible triadicity of

Peirce (Chapter 9) or the complementarity principle of Lao-Tzu and

Bohr (Section 2.4), which may be fundamentally related as suggested

in Section 10.5 in connection with Figure 10.7.

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