The relativity of theory

TL;DR

This paper introduces a comprehensive information-theoretic framework for deriving physical laws, unifying existing approaches and exploring their implications for understanding the nature of physical reality.

Contribution

It presents a general framework that unifies various information-theoretic derivations of physical laws and introduces a principle of informational physics.

Findings

Existing approaches are unified within the framework.

Constraints based on observation processes are incorporated.

Implications for practical, theoretical, and epistemological understanding are discussed.

Abstract

A general information-theoretic framework for deriving physical laws is presented and a principle of informational physics is enunciated within its context. Existing approaches intended to derive physical laws from information-theoretic first principles are unified as special cases of this framework with the introduction of constraints dependent on the physical process of observation. Some practical, theoretical and epistemological implications of the validity of this approach are examined.