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iconic sign, indexical sign, symbolic sign; rheme, dicisign, argument; see

Tables 6.4 and 10.5) may play a key role in biology and related disciplines

in the 21st century, at both the macro- (e.g., evolution, psychology) and

microscales (e.g., control of gene expression). The latter conjecture seems

to be supported by the following observations:

1. The concept of gnergy has been claimed to integrate all scientific and
   philosophical systems within a coherent framework known as comple-
   mentarism, including topics ranging from the origin of life to molecu-
   lar and cell biology, and from cosmology to metaphysics [7, 24, 50].


2. Gnergons, discrete units (or tokens) of gnergy (as a type), are postu-
   lated to provide the ultimate driving force for all self-organizing pro-
   cesses in the Universe, including the Big Bang, the origin of life,
   evolution, and communication in living systems [7]. Therefore, signs
   may be considered as constituting a subset of gnergons (Section 6.5).

If Figure 10.31 and Table 10.13 are right, semiotics will be able to

provide an overarching theoretical framework to integrate most, if not all,

of the scientific and philosophical disciplines known to humans in the 21st

century, again in agreement with the Josephson conjecture, Statement

(4.8), that ‘Semiotics will eventually overtake quantum mechanics in the

same way as quantum mechanics overtook classical physics’. It should be

pointed out that Figure 10.31 differs from the architectonic theory of Peirce

in two respects: (a) It is much simpler than Peirce’s scheme of organizing

human knowledge, and (b) it is based on the logic inherent in the principle

of energy–information complementarity.

10.21 Triadic Monism

Burgin’s suggestion that the relation between information and knowledge

(or structure more generally) is akin to that between energy and matter

[37] is depicted at the center of Figure 10.32 (see Arrows 1 and 4 in this

figure and in Table 21.2 in [25]). Since energy and matter are quantita-

tively related through E = mc^2 , which can be viewed as a supplementary

relation (see Section 2.4) and, since the combination of energy and matter

is conserved according to the First Law of thermodynamics, it would be

logical and natural to combine these two terms into one word,

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