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6.3.7 A New Architectonics Based on the Principle
of Information-Energy Complementarity
Architectonics is the science of systematizing all knowledge. We can recognize
three distinct types of sciences. By “science” is meant a system of human knowl-
edge organized according to some rules. Also I am including matter within the
concept of energy, since energy and matter are interconnected and interconvertible
through E
mc 2 (Shadowitz 1968).
¼
1. “Energy science” or energetics , the study of energy transformation, transmission,
and storage in the Universe, for example, physics, chemistry, quantum mechan-
ics, thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, Newtonian mechanics, statistical
mechanics, etc.,
2. “Information science” or informatics , the study of information transduction,
transfer, and storage, for example, linguistics, computer science, informatics,
logic, mathematics, etc., and
3. “Energy-Information science” or gnergetics , the study of goal-directed or teleo-
nomic processes driven by gnergy, for example, cosmology, biology, cognitive
science, philosophy, and religion.
According to complementarism (see Sect. 2.3.4 ), all irreconcilable opposites can
be viewed as complementary aspects of a third which transcends the level where the
opposites are recognized or have meanings. Thus, if we view information and
energy as irreconcilable opposites, then there must be a third for which energy
and information are complementary aspects. This third entity was given the name
“gnergy” in the mid-1980s. We can express the same ideas algebraically thus:
Gnon ^ Ergon
Ontology
:
Gnergy
¼
(6.42)
Epistemology : Gnergetics ¼ Gnonics ^ Ergonics
(6.43)
where the symbol, ^, denotes the complementary relation of Bohr, generalized in
complementarism in terms of three complementarian logical criteria (see Sect.
2.3.3 ) .
Equations 6.42 and 6.43 provide the logical basis for equating “Energy-Information
science” with gnergetics, or gnergy science, in (3) above. We can summarize all these
ideas in the form of a diagram (Fig. 6.11 ):
The tree types of sciences described in (1) through (3) above and those described
in Fig. 6.11 are related as follows:
Energy Science
Energetics (or Ergonics)
Information science
¼
Informatics (or Gnonics)
Energy-Information Science
¼
¼
Gnergetics (or Gnergonics)
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