Science 2.0 Principles

Nature is a Machine that can be understood as an information system:

The new science exposes a relative reality expressing other dimensions
inconsistent with our classical notion of a machine. An information
system is a machine which has no dimensional or other constraints.
Any machine can be modeled as an information system. The universe is
in the countable set of information systems so far as it can be
understood. An information system from which experience projected
represents the machinery of the universe from one or more
perspectives. The information system is the analog of the machine
which may or may not represent the actual machinery of the universe.

We can't know if our model is the same as the actual machine. Most
often we find that our model is an emergent effect of statistical
interpretation of organization in another fractal of organization or
information channel. The map is not the territory and we can only
know how our maps interrelate for an incomplete description of
experience. Since our universe apparently exhibits universal logic
what might be exhibited is unrestricted and impossible to model
finitely.

Finite Nature:

It is the presumption of science that the universe is a machine. In
the new science it is firstly a constructable machine. It may be
other things as well, but it is the finitely constructable machine
that is of primary interest to science. Previously Science has
accepted infinities into the realm of the objective, but nature has
contraindicated many of the first principles of Science 1.0, and
Einstein wisely speculated that any complete theory must be free of
singularities which indeed infinities represent.

There are many ways we can enumerate all constructable mathematics and
languages from the simplest to the more complex, infinitely. These are
what is constructable or describable in any manner. Science seeks the
simplest of these models that reflect experience. We can only be sure
we have the simplest if we can eliminate the possibility of there
being an equivalent model with fewer states. In the worst case all
simpler models can be tried to prove there is no simpler finite model.

Multidimensional information semi-fractal perspectives:

Science is a methodology, not an ideology. Part of that methodology
has been formulating theories that present ideals of nature. Instead
nature exhibits an exceptional nature, and ideals are only exhibited
in a limited relative information context. Elsewhere other fractals of
organization dominate in our experience. The ideal is an analogy of
some emergent relative order. It is only one channel of truth, or
information, in complex systems. Each maps the cognitive context of
one perspective on experience.

Taxonomy of Perspectives:

The perception of the observer in Science 2.0 is accepted to be
biased, distorted and relative. We find however that there are
mechanical, chemical and electric devices that confirm our experience
better than a human witness. They further can allow us to project
experience beyond human observer to any participant in an arrangement
being studied, down to the level of an atom. Every participant is
equal in Science 2.0. No special observer status is conveyed to any
participant.

The human reality is our interface to the objective but it is a
subjective and collective reality, not an objective one. We must
except that the human reality is distinct from the objective reality
though they may seem to overlap considerably. Science 2.0 is a
mechanical methodology to distinguish what we know objectively from
what we think we know. Some things we think we know are testable, and
may become objective statements in some context and be found to be
myths in other contexts. Some beliefs are not decidable and taking
either side is in error objectively.

The infinite perspectives include the spiritual and Platonic. Much of
the body of Science 1.0 lays in this realm until finite contexts of
applicability have been formalized for each of the ideals and related
to a relevant perspective.

The social perspectives include cultural and relative perspectives
down to electrodynamic interaction. The life organism, Church,
Nation, family, organism, organ, chemical, electrodynamic.

Self is the perspective where we have no choice about what we truly
believe. We are social elements as much as we are ourselves. As an
object in this world we instantiate an independent clock and are an
equal participant. It is necessarily a subjective perspective.

The absolute perspective includes only that which is necessary and
consistent with the relative perspective of of all known and all
possible participants in the universe. For example, a registered
quantum event has an electrodynamic effect that may have all different
values for different observers, but fact of the quantum logical action
exists absolutely as the exchange of some amount of momentum is
witnessed by any observer that cares to look.

The synthetic model is a machine that accounts for the absolute model.
For example, the quantum mechanical description of matter and energy
may be complete, but it only tells how interaction is felt non locally
with transmission and reception of energy packets instancing
gazillions of bits of apparent space time information from exponential
effect of just hundreds of bits of relative energy information. The
synthetic model describes the actions of individual bits of quantum
action team up into harmonic effects of the absolute model.

The Transcendental perspective posits that physical quantum
information is not special and information on every fractal of
organization is connected in some way to all others and is as much an
actuator of that fractal and it is actualized by it. While this may
be generally true it is also may be highly speculative unless the
mechanism is discovered. With respect to science, it must be
testable. It may be true that quantum action is deterministic
intrinsically, but what we experience is statistically emergent. It
is only causally connected to the information in our world by a 50%
correlation. The physical quantum reality is an independent logical
perspective from the human realm with causation going both ways. We
do not have an objective bases ultimately to say physical quantum
information is necessarily more fundamental. We can only see if
physical quantum information is sufficient to account for the
emergence of all other information contexts we can study or not.

Big is slow, fast is first:

In the quest for first principles in the new science we may be tempted
to find general principles that may always be applied. But clearly
there will be exceptions to all ideals. None the less, there are
themes that emerge in every semi fractal of organization and are
useful across many disciplines. These are markers that allow relating
one information context to another. Big is related to complex
organization with slow change and small to simple organization where a
small change may have a significant immediate effect. Higher
frequencies have shorter wave lengths. Everything is interrelated in
an information system and has effects at a different rate. The
fastest clocks tend to determine the outcome.

It is not always true that big is slow and fast is first, consider big
fast twitch and small slow twitch muscle fibers. Fast internal
clocking does not always exhibit fast external clocking. But by
relative clocking we are unlikely to go wrong associating frequency
with size or complexity. Conveniently, frequency defines a
communication channel and harmonic component of an information
fractal. Conveniently the instantiation by energy of space and time
are directly related, and energy is directly related to frequency. A
long wave is slow frequency and low energy.

While an ant may take ten steps a second, a elephant takes just one.
This is a related fractal where the principle applies but it is not
the same effect really. I include this dual principle in the new
science tentatively, because we need some clock to start with.
Einstein remarked that according to quantum theory the direction of
time should be random. Clearly it is not random as every experiment
verifies. The fastest clock in our realm is the sun. In any realm
being studied there is some fastest clock. What happens in that realm
may not be caused by the fastest clock because tuned senders
(emitters) and receivers (absorbers) of energy equally cause the
event, but using the fastest clock as the first approximation will
generally be rewarded in any information system including biological
and primitive physical systems not to mention brain and mind.

Our prior first principles of a continuum, covariance, inherent
randomness, etc., have been contraindicated by nature. This
preliminary list of principles aims to allow the emergence of a
relative space time as it is manifest by quantum action perceived as
relative energy.

There is no science in isolation:

The new science is where ideals apply and how they are related. The
internet provides content addressability. and semantic standards allow
all our ontologies to be related according to objective criteria of
fact and myth they may imply. The new science will consist of
information objects such as this item that will be linked to related
ontologies such that the ideas may be translated between the cognitive
contexts. In Science 1.0 we could all speak the same language in the
same cognitive context. In the new science nature determines what
information contexts are manifest objectively and none can be excluded
by some ideal. It is time we incorporate at least a minimal semantic
formality in our contribution to the new science such that objectivity
is ordered with respect to related contexts such that we can
distinguish what we know from what we think we know. It will be open
and collective like wikipedia and constrained in other trust networks
employing more specific requirements for objectivity.

Jim
http://InformationPhysics.com