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analysis seems to be that cybersemiotics is supported by the gnergy tetra-

hedron. The difference between CS and GT seems to be that the former is

a description of life world, while GT is a theoretical model of it embody-

ing two symmetry principles, the principles of supplementarity and com-

plementarity (see Section 2.4), first enunciated by N. Bohr based on

quantum physics in the 1920s [41, 45, 483, 484].

Another way of comparing the CS and the gnergy tetrahedron is on

the basis of the ITR template/diagram as shown in Figure 10.17.

As can be seen in Figure 10.17, there are five layers, to each of which

ITR can be applied repeatedly, reminiscent of the principle of self- similarity,

scale-invariance, or fractals [550]. The meaning of the structure-preserving

mappings, f, g, and h, depends on the layers involved, and my current

suggestions are:

Layer 1: f = description; g = theorizing; h = intersubjective

correspondence

Layer 2: f = description; g = cognition; h = intersubjective

correspondence

Layer 3: f = perception; g = cognition; h = reasoning, thinking

Table 10.7 A comparison between the cybersemiotic star (CS) [405, 406] and the gnergy

tetrahedron (GT) [7, 25]: CS can be viewed as the surjective co-domain of GT, or as the function

of GT that embodies the principle of supplementarity and complementarity (Section 2.4).

Edge Morphisms [370, 371]

Functors

(Supplementarity)

Natural

Transformation

Node (Complementarity)

Cybernetic

Star

Gnergy

Tetrahedron

1 Energy Energy

Mattergy

Gnergy*

2 Life Matter

3 Consciousness Life

Liformation**

4 Meaning Information

Notes: *Coined in 1991 by combining Greek stems, “gn-” from gnosis meaning knowledge and

“-ergy” from ergon meaning work or energy [7]. Discrete units of gnergy are called “gnergons” whose

existence have been experimentally demonstrated in the forms of conformons, conformational strains

stored in sequence-specific sites within biopolymers such as DNA supercoils and SIDS (stress-

induced duplex destabilizations), etc. (reviewed in [25, pp. 240–3]).

**Coined in 2012 [25, pp. 24–9] by combining “life” and “information” in analogy to “mattergy”

which is the combination of “matter” and “energy”.

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