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evolve higher-order structures such as galaxies, stars, planets, moons,

molecules, the biosphere, and organisms, including us, humans, under

appropriate conditions emergent at specific epochs in the history of the

Universe. It is interesting to note that a similar view was recently put

forward by a group of cosmologists [413]. The biological information

encoded in living systems may be viewed as ultimately derived from the

cosmological information, IC, through a series of information transduc-

tions, similar to the well-studied phenomenon of signal transductions

occurring in the living cell. If this view of the origin of information is

correct, a set of interesting conclusions may be drawn:

1. What happens in this Universe cannot be completely random, includ-
   ing biological evolution. That is, biological evolution may be con-
   strained (or directed) by the cosmological information, IC, encoded in
   nonliving material entities (i.e., abiotic matter).


2. All information associated with this Universe may be continuous with
   (or traced back to) the origin of the cosmological information at the
   time of the Big Bang.


3. Possibles, Actuals, and Information may reflect the ontological triad
   of Peirce (Figure 10.23).

The similarity between Figures 10.23 and 10.28 in Section 10.17.1 is

striking. The similarity may be transformed into an identity simply by

Firstness

(Possibles)

Secondness Thirdness

(Actuals, or (Information, or

Matter/Energy) Regularities/Laws)

Figure 10.23 A postulated evolution (or reification) of possibles into actuals and associ-

ated information (and laws).

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