bimodality

The fundamental ontological assumption of EE is that any system has two different modes of existence, namely matter-energy and >knowledge. This idea is partly borrowed from Karl Popper who distinguished different kinds of "worlds", including the world of the creations of mind. However, as an ontological premise EE is even more radical because every instance of existence can be viewed from both angles, like the particle/wave dualism in physics. The world is knowledge.

This view is the simple consequence of the correlate assumption that everything is the result of >evolution, and that every evolutionary process by necessity leads to the emergence of structures that carry knowledge about the environment in which the system processes take place. These results are regularities in the sense of recurrent causal events that can be described in "if - then" clauses of an observer, and which have universal validity within the boundaries of the system (>rule/regularity).

Basic References
There is a special website devoted to Karl Popper, who is one of the intellectual fathers of the bimodality concept:
Karl Popper Web

Semantic Field
evolution   bimodality   singularity
system