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In The Third International Seminar on the Living State held in

Shillong, India, December 13–19, 1986, ably organized by Professor

Rajendra K. Mishra (1924–2009), two papers were presented, one by

A. K. Mukhopadhyay of All India Institute of Medical Sciences,

New Delhi, and the other by S. Ji of Rutgers University, USA. In the

former, the concept of supracortical consciousness was proposed and

in the latter a biological model of the Universe later called the

Shillongator (see Section 10.18.1) was presented, the latter being based

on the conformon theory of living processes. Conformons are defined

as discrete units of gnergy, the complementary union of information

(gn-) and “energy (-ergy), postulated to be stored in biopolymers and

drive all goal-directed processes inside the living cell (see Section 3.4).

Although Professor Mukhopadhyay saw the possible connection between

the supracortical consciousness and the conformon in his book, Dynamic

Web of Supracortical Consciousness [567], already in 1987, I have been

slow in recognizing this connection until now, probably because I have not

yet read his book in entirety, except its abstract. In any case, I do now see

more clearly (as described in [568]) the connection between the supracor-

tical consciousness and the conformon, primarily because of the develop-

ment of the principle of ITR (Irreducible Triadic Relation) (see Chapter 9)

and the cell language theory (see Chapter 4) that has taken place since the

Shillong meeting three decades ago. The conformon–supracortical con-

sciousness connection (see Table 1 in [567]) can be represented diagram-

matically as shown in Figure 10.35, which now invokes three aspects of

Consciousness — Cosmological, Cortical, and Supracortical, each

related to their associated languages (see Layer 3) and the metaphysical

categories of Peirce (see Layer 5).

I came to represent my theory of the Universe geometrically using a

BCT (Body-centered Tetrahedron) (see Figure 10.15) whose center is

occupied by gnergy (G), and hence is called the gnergy tetrahedron and

whose four apexes are occupied by matter (M), energy (E), information

(I), and life (L). The gnergy tetrahedron embodies two symmetry princi-

ples of Bohr (Section 2.4):

1. Complementarity between mattergy and liformation (see the EM and
   the IL edges that do not touch each other in the gnergy tetrahedron,
   Figure 10.15), and

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