Cell Language Theory, The: Connecting Mind And Matter

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Table 10.8 A philosophical analog of the chemical periodic table constructed on the basis
of the complementarian logic (Section 2.4.2) and Peircean categories (Section 6.3.2).
E1 (Empty) E2
Matter (Aristotle)
Extension (Spinoza)
Body (Merleau-Ponty)
Thermodynamic (or
Clausius) entropy
Conformational strains
of DNA [7, 65, 79, 80,
225, 226]

E3
Lawful behaviors
(or Laws) of
matter and energy
in physics,
chemistry, and
biology, including
the Second Law of
thermodynamics.
I1
(Empty)

G1
Potentialities
(Peirce) [429,
pp. 24–4]
Gnergy as Firstness
(Section 2.9)
I2
Form (Aristotle)
Thought (Spinoza)
Mind (Merleau-Ponty)
Boltzmann entropy
DNA sequence
Information [430]
Bohm’s Implicate Order
[421]
Laszlo’s scalar potentials
of cosmic plenum [422]

G2
Concrete
Substance (Aristotle)
Substance (Spinoza)
Actualities (Peirce) [429]
Flesh (Merleau-Ponty)
Gnergy as Secondness
(e.g., conformons, action
potentials) , also known
as gnergons, discrete
units of gnergy
I3
Generalities (Peirce) [429,
pp. 34–2]
Fisher information [426]
Hartley information [189]
Shannon entropy or
information [189]
Tsalis entropy [431]

G3
Gnergy as
Thirdness
Evolving Universe
(Habits)

Please note that Ii and Ei are orthogonal to each other on the one hand and constitute the complemen-
tary aspects of Gi on the other, where i is 1, 2, or 3.


  1. The triadic school: Energy and information are the two complementary
    aspects of a third entity. Spinoza’s and Merleau-Ponty’s ontologies
    may exemplify this school of thought. Spinoza [289, 392] referred to


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