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Fig. 10.7 The gnergy principle of the Universe depicted as a body-centered tetrahedron. There are
five nodes: (1) Gnergy (G), (2) Energy (E), (3) Matter (M), (4) Information (I), and (5) Life (L).
There are two supplementary pairs in this Figure: (1) the (E + M) pair constituting mattergy , and
(2) the (I + L) pair constituting liformation . Mattergy and liformation are complementary aspects
of gnergy (see Table 2.6 ) . The model of the Universe based on the gnergy principle is known as the
Shillongator (Ji 1991) (Reproduced from Ji 2004b)

Table 10.5 The body-centered tetrahedron as an iconic sign (Sect. 6.2.1 ) of the Universe and its
constituents. The five nodes are numbered as in Fig. 10.7 (Reproduced from Ji 2004b)

The five nodes of the body-centered tetrahedron
1 Systems 2 3 4 5

1. Universe
(Ji 1991)

Gnergy (G) Energy (E) Matter (M) Information (I) Life (L)

2. Cell
(Fig. 10.2 )

Environment Biochemicals Proteins RNA DNA

3. Body
(Ji 1991)

Motion
system

Nervous
system

Circulatory
system

Endocrine
system

Immune system

4. Mind
(Ji 2004b)

Biochemicals DNA Cells Brain Mind

5. Signs
(Ji 2004b)

Gnergy Sign

processor

Representamen
( Firstness )

Object
(Secondness)

Interpretant
( Thirdness )

new philosophical framework called complementarism (Ji 1991, 1993, 1995) (Row
11), according to which the ultimate reality is the complementary union of irrecon-
cilable opposites.
Finally, as evident in Table 2.6 , complementarity enfolds supplementarity in that
the two nodes of gnergy are occupied with two supplementary pairs called mattergy
or matter and energy on the one hand and liformation or life and information