The Philosophical Implications of the Cell Language Theory 447“6x9” b2861 The Cell Language Theory: Connecting Mind and Matterthe empirical fact of the constancy of the speed of light [434, 435].
Analogously, there may be a new theory to be constructed to account for
the information–life supplementarity. I suggest that the sought-after the-
ory may be identified with a theory of molecular systems constructed on
the basis of the laws of Newtonian dynamics, quantum mechanics, statis-
tical mechanics, thermodynamics, and information theory plus the
empirical fact of biological evolution which has endowed living systems
with genetic information that guides/constrains the behaviors of their
molecular components in the direction of accomplishing gene-directed
goals. One such theory, referred to as the molecular information theory,
was formulated in 2004 [273]. It is envisioned that the molecular infor-
mation theory will represent the dynamics of living systems as fuzzy
trajectories in the phase space [248].
As pointed out above, the gnergy tetrahedron comprises two mutu-
ally exclusive or orthogonal aspects — the diachronic (i.e., through
time) and the synchronic (i.e., at the same time). These concepts, first
introduced by Saussure [260], play important roles in modern linguis-
tics. The gnergy tetrahedron appearing in Figures 10.15 and 10.16 can
be viewed as emphasizing the synchronic role of gnergy in maintaining
the Universe and life in it as is. In contrast, the gnergy tetrahedron
depicted in Figure 10.26 emphasizes the diachronic aspect, namely, the
origin of everything (including life) from Gnergy throughout the history
of our Universe.
One indirect support for the gnergy model of the origin of the
Universe shown in Figure 10.26 is provided by the cosmological finding
that matter indeed was formed after energy [436] (see the Hawking–
Penrose–Guth break in Figure 10.16). Matter consists mainly of protons
and neutrons, collectively called baryons, from Greek word “barys”
meaning heavy, baryons being about 2000 times heavier than electrons.
According to the Big Bang theory, baryons were produced a few minutes
after the big bang in a minute amount relative to that of radiation energy,
the ratio between the number of baryons to that of photons being only
6 × 10 –10. This ratio is known as the baryon asymmetry, and the process
by which such an asymmetry is produced in our Universe is called
baryogenesis, one of the major unsolved problems in contemporary
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