Etymologically, an architect is a ‘master builder’, such as architects of buildings, although they are generally more designers than constructors, creating blueprints and models for builders to work with.

At the dawn of the Information Society, around 1980, when various business modelling methods began to emerge, information systems architect became a new function in business, more as a master designer than a builder, sometimes leaving it to others to construct systems. As generalists, information systems architects work with specialists in user departments, determining which tasks can be automated and which could be given assistance through human interaction with a wide variety of software tools.

This function of information systems architect in business has become generalized in that of a Panosopher, designing a comprehensive view of the Universe from the ground up. Thus, in Integral Relational Logic, the tools of information systems architects are used to weave the opposites together, in conformity with the root meaning of the second morpheme.

Panosophers thus stand outside themselves, viewing the Totality of Existence rather like astronauts viewing the Earth from the Moon. It is thus not true that the Universe has evolved without a designer, as atheistic evolutionists assert.