We pop up to the top level here to ask the prime question about Digital Philosophy “Why bother?” The answer is that Digital Philosophy might reflect how microscopic things actually work. DP might explain aspects of the process of life. DP might explain aspects of behavior, consciousness and thought. DP offers the prospect of opening a new door to amazing and fantastic possibilities. It might allow for the complete and total understanding of the microscopic processes of intelligence, life and physics. DP might be the beginnings of a new intellectual revolution comparable to what was spawned by the development of mathematics. DP is not a replacement for mathematics; it is something else. A mathematical law is a statement that is true in some system and that system is often the physics of this world. However, mathematics itself is a collection of knowledge that has been codified and simplified and made systematic so that the essence of some collection of facts can be captured in its formalisms. On the other hand, DP specifies a working model. Every DM model can be put into a computer where it runs and evolves, showing us things that we could not know without creating the model and putting it into motion. We expect that a good DM model of physics will be a subject for the same kind of mathematical treatment as has been accorded to physics. However, the DM model ought to allow us to also derive the mathematical aspects analytically; from the basic rule of the DM model.
Unlike contemporary cognitive psychology, biology and physics, every normal person, including children ready to learn algebra, would be able to understand the most fundamental laws of digital nature exactly and completely; as well as they can be understood by anyone.
Again, the two main attributes of Digital Philosophy are:
1. Ultimately, all information must have a digital means of representation.
2. All change in information is a consequence of digital informational processes.
Where there is state information there must be Digital representation. Where there is a change of state information, there must be a Digital process that effects that change.
Last revised 22 October 2001