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Now it is truly remarkable that the graphon defined in (10.61) appears

in practically every field of human inquiry, including:

1. Set theory,


2. Topology,


3. Category theory [451–453],


4. Theoretical computer science (e.g., labeled deductive systems [455]),
   . 5 Physics (e.g., vibrating superstrings → fermions + bosons [445–448]),


5. Chemistry (e.g., chemical reactions such as shown in Figure 9.8),


6. Biology (e.g., metabolic pathways; signal transduction pathways,
   genetic network such as shown in Figure 3.2),


7. Psychology (e.g., fuzzy neural networks [456, 457]),


8. Behavioral science [458],


9. Linguistics [459],


10. Text analysis [460], and


11. Social sciences [461].

Evidently, this list covers most, if not all, of the major disciplines in

human knowledge, and all of them involve the graphon, Process (10.61),

in one way or another. Therefore, if the graphon can serve as a diagram-

matic representation of Peircean signs, then it may be logical to conclude

that semiotics (of Peirce) can serve as a Theory of Everything (TOE) (at

least in a formal sense).

I claim that the graphon depicted in (10.61) is a composite sign con-

sisting of the following three categories of elementary signs (for the defi-

nition of Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness, see Section 6.3.2; for the

definition of composite and elementary signs, see Section 6.6):

1. A and B representing the potentialities (Firstness);


2. A → B representing the actualization (Secondness) of a change, inter-
   action, or process; and


3. The symbol f representing the rules, laws, or habits (Thirdness) lead-
   ing to, causing, or enabling the A B process.

If this conjecture is valid, the semiotics and the associated metaphys-

ics of Peirce will be applicable to (and hence will provide a general theo-

retical framework for) everything in the Universe as we know it, which

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