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Fig. 21.4
A class III
category endowed with the
commutativity relation shown
in Eq. 21.6
i
-1
Liformation
Gnergy
m
k
-1
Mattergy
Infoknowledge
n
N System
F System
Table 21.4
The three-component philosophical systems of Peirce, Popper, Rosen, and Wheeler.
The Arabic numerals in bold refer to those appearing in Rosen's modeling relation shown in
Fig.
21.5
.
Authors
Component I
Component II
Component III
Rosen
Natural law (
2
and
4
)
Natural system (
1
)
Formal system (
3
)
Firstness
a
Secondness
b
Thirdness
c
Peirce
Sign
d
Object
e
Interpretant
f
,or
Sign (?)
Interpretant
Object
World 1
g
World 2
h
World 3
i
Popper
Bit
l
Ji Gnergy Mattergy Liformation
Cosmolanguage
m
Cell language
n
Human language
o
a
Any entity or process that can exist without anything else, e.g., quality, feelings, possibilities (see
Table
6.7
)
b
Any entity or process that exists because of another entity, e.g., facts, actuality, reaction
c
Any entity or process that exists as the mediator between two other entities or processes, e.g.,
representation, mediation, thought
d
Something which stands for something other than itself (see Sect. 6.2.1)
e
The thing that is referred to by a sign (see Sect. 6.2.1)
f
Participant/observer
j
It
k
Wheeler
The effect that a sign has on the mind of the sign processor
g
The physical world including the living world
h
The mental world
i
The world of the products of the human mind, including poems, arts, and scientific theories
j
The human as the observer and participant in defining the reality
k
The reality or the object of measurement
l
The result of measurements
m
The language that enables cell and human languages (see Sect. 6.2.6)
n
The molecular language used by living cells to communicate within and between themselves
o
The symbolic and iconic languages (see Sect. 6.2.5) used by Homo sapiens to communicate
within and between themselves
The precise nature of the functors appearing in Eq. 21.6 is currently unknown.
One possible set of the meanings/properties of the functors is suggested below:
m = the origin of life through self-organizing properties of matter and energy
(see the Shillongator in Ji 1991, pp. 156-163, 230-237).
