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In conclusion, the work of Petoukhov and those of the present author

over the past several decades appear to support the notion that oscillatory/

vibrational/wave motions play fundamental roles not only in physics but

also in living systems and that mathematics, especially matrix algebra, is

indispensable in revealing the structures hidden behind the empirical

regularities revealed by many natural processes at all scales, both living

and nonliving [367].

10.20 Semiotics as the Theory of Everything (TOE)

Physicists have their TOE in the form of superstring theories which they

hope will fulfill their dream of unifying the four fundamental (i.e., gravi-

tational, electromagnetic, weak, and strong) forces of nature [445–448].

Even if their optimism is realized in the near future, it is not clear how

superstring theories (or their equivalents) will be able to provide satisfac-

tory explanations for everything in the Universe, such as life and con-

sciousness, mathematics and linguistics, and literature and art. The

semiotics of Peirce, appropriately updated by taking into account the new

developments in systems theory, cybernetics [433, 449], molecular and

cell biology [7, 16, 273], and humanities [393–395], may provide a true

TOE that will account for everything in this Universe, including super-

string theories themselves [445–448] and category theories [451–453], the

most abstract of mathematical systems yet devised by the human mind.

The logical path that has led me to this broad conclusion is schematically

represented below:

Points (Set Theory) → Objects (Category Theories)

→ Signs (Semiotics) (10.59)

The main idea behind Scheme (10.59) is that, just as mathematicians

developed, in the mid-1990s, category theories by replacing simple points

with more complex mathematical entities known as “objects” of a cate-

gory, so perhaps semioticians could generalize category theories by

replacing their objects with Peircean signs (appropriately updated to

include Zeroness and Nilsign) (see Section 6.6.4). Such a project seems

eminently logical and reasonable, because points and objects are clearly

“signs” as defined by Peirce: “A sign, ... is something which stands to

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