Foundational Laws of Informational Dynamics (LID): A Structural Theory of What Information Does When Operative

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Authors: Armando Soto
Cited by: 8

Abstract

Foundational Laws of Informational Dynamics (LID) is a structural framework describing what information does when operative. It develops trunk laws concerning relation, trace, continuation, partiality, correspondence risk, coherence, field conditioning, consequence, and attribution, while opening gateway questions about awareness, identity, life, ethics, and consequential informational dynamics. These laws are not instructions. They describe what is already operative wherever information operates. The framework addresses foundational questions across multiple domains: how complex systems accumulate and propagate structure, why error and creativity share the same mechanism, how identity persists through change, what distinguishes life from non-life at the functional level, how ethics emerges from the structure of consequential operation rather than from external rules, and how awareness arises as a threshold phenomenon rather than a substrate-specific property.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Embodied and Extended Cognition Chaos Complexity and Education Innovation Sustainability Human-Machine Systems

Publication details

Journal / source
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Publication date
15 April 2026
Language
EN
Document type
Preprint