481“6x9” b2861 The Cell Language Theory: Connecting Mind and MatterChapter 11
Conclusions
(1) Two kinds of regularities or structures have been found to underlie a
large number of phenomena occurring at all scales, from atomic
systems to enzymes, cells, organisms, languages, decision-making,
economic activities, and cosmological microwave background radia-
tion: (a) irreducible triadic relation (ITR; see Figure 9.1) and (b) the
Planckian distribution equation (PDE; see Eq. (8.2) or (8.3)). The
former is qualitative involving words, while the latter is quantitative
involving numbers. Thus, this book provides the evidence that there
exist two kinds of functors (defined in Section 2.1.1) — qualitative
and quantitative (see the top and the bottom rows of Table 11.1).
Furthermore, it is here suggested that these two kinds of functors are
connected via the principle of complementarity (discussed in
Section 2.4), since quantity and quality can be viewed as comple-
mentary aspects of the ultimate reality [24].
(2) Life and information are supplementary, just as energy and matter
are supplementary through Einstein’s equation, E = mc^2. That is, life
can be viewed as resulting from a highly condensed state of informa-
tion, as exemplified by informational macromolecules such as DNA,
RNA, and proteins that carry out gene-instructed molecular processes
inside the cell, utilizing the free energy released from the chemical
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