The Tree-Top Meta-Method: Webinar Presentation

Boris KrigerInformation Physics Institute, UK · Institute of Integrative and Interdisciplinary Research, Canada Description: Presentation slides (55 slides, .pptx) for the webinar hosted by the Information Physics Institute. The talk introduces the Tree-Top Meta-Method — a formal methodology for cross-domain inquiry whose essence is: generalise formally until generalisation is no longer possible, then derive domain-specific consequences from what remains true. Part One presents the method: the problem of disciplinary fragmentation between science and philosophy, the tree allegory and its formal structure, the key definitions (anchor, ascent step, limit, structural necessity), proof by inadequacy, four core derivations (from differentiation, conservation laws, fractal scaling, and the law of large numbers), and the method's relation to existing traditions (category theory, systems theory, transcendental argument, structural realism, viability theory). Part Two presents the results: the six-part edifice of the Unified Structural Theory of Complex Systems, including meta-theoretical foundations (five foundational laws), the dynamical core (persistence triad, four laws of self-organisation, constraint–autonomy compatibility, viability mismatch), cognition as structural necessity (structural distortion, predictive processing, representational isolation, atemporal memory, mental disintegration), social systems (extractive oscillators, conflict as phase transition, totalising ideals, deception framework, dyadic system viability), cross-domain applications, and synthesis. Includes structural correspondences table, falsifiability criteria, independent validation, and a case study of the host's (Prof. Melvin Vopson) derivation of Newton's gravitational force from information dynamics as an example of the method in action. Keywords: tree-top meta-method, formal generalisation, structural necessity, complex systems, persistence, viability theory, cross-domain inquiry, systems science, interdisciplinary methodology Related publications:Kriger, B. (2026). The Tree-Top Meta-Method. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18665621Kriger, B. (2026). A Unified Structural Theory of Complex Systems (Doctoral Thesis). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18637687