PHILOSOPHY OF PHYSICS: THEORY ON THE LOGIC OF META-PHYSICS A Scientific Approach NATHAN COPPEDGE PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT SOUTHERN CT STATE UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATE I owe the success of this paper to comments I have received from fellow Quorans, As well as my previous work, “The Logic of Coherence” which benefited by Igor Schagaev’s input. The major developments that led up to this paper may be found at: https://www.quora.com/In-what-ways-has-the-Linguistic-turn-proven-fruitful-in-Western-philosophy/answer/Nathan-Coppedge THEORY ON THE LOGIC OF METAPHYSICAL MAGIC ABSTRACT This paper began with an unusually parsimonious definition of what is commonly called magic, as well as how such real magic may be applied to higher dimensional metaphysics. The structure of the paper is to use a by now familiar and characteristic approach to system-forming as a background for an exclusive list of certain state-of-the-art concepts which may then be developed into helpful definitions expressly on the matter of the required exclusion. Later parts of the paper detail the implications and limitations of this work, using the scientific method. KEYWORDS: Higher-dimensional physics, Fourth dimension, Fifth dimension, Coherent philosophy, Magic, Information theory, Information philosophy, Metaphysics, Multiverses MISSION: The goal of this paper is to reach important conclusions about the nature of information in the fourth and higher dimensions. It will draw on previous work. CHARACTERISTICS In Brief: The ideal structure of information is exponentially efficient (that is, it has exponential properties). It is also concise, offers some content or logic to be analyzed, and beyond this point it gains by quantifiability. An additional principle is that it must have a finite quantifiability in order to meet the criterion of excludability which underlies coherence. Further, a standard of equality must be upheld between the constituent concepts, be they systems, modes, categories, or properties (as shown in my previous paper “The Logic of Coherence”), or the result is an unending ladder of associations which points towards greater or lesser missing areas. In other words, without exclusion there can be no coherence. STRUCTURE Concepts: * Abstract Materialism * Relative Absoluteness * Arbitrary Idealism * Causal Structuralism * Meaningful Magic These compound categories are designed to express something fundamental about physics, in particular what may be called ‘conceptual physics’ or ‘dimensional physics’, and are a result of rigorous analysis These concepts did not come about quickly or automatically, instead they depend on a hidden structure which is far more complex. Concepts date back first to a Systems Theory project abstracting a wide variety of semantic concepts, and a further structure related to coherence that will be the subject of a book COHERENT PHILOSOPHY: 256 OMNI-SCIENCES.. DEFINITIONS Important key definitions arose from the particular parts: Reality: “The broadest concept of information, suggesting ideal functions through foreseeable entity paradigms.” Knowledge: “Context driven facts substantiated either by universal relevance (info-materialism), or cause and effect (logic).” Perfection: “The rehabilitation of choices through freedoms arising from equally-valid contexts, themselves arising from provable values, which are substantiated by the existence of plurality and also the existence of equality.” High-Minded Principle: “Materials arising purely from causal forces are sheerly reductive.” Magic: “A meta-physical aesthetic involving properties of information and the choices about it.” PROOF-EVIDENCE Paradigmatic information functions as information, or there is no physical function. A finite fact either has logical relevance (interaction with local information), or universal relevance (interpretability for a larger whole), analogous to data and theory of physical interactions. For any finite choice, an opportunity is defined relatively as an equal interaction. In interpretability, nothing is left but the purposes of things. Relativism becomes meaningless, because even relativism requires a definition, or it lacks information content. COUNTEREXAMPLES AND CONCLUSION The major counter-example is if physics is not composed of information. Now we can see that magic is indeed possible in the higher dimensions, because it simply involves the freedom to choose about relative information. To the extent that matter is information, relativity will imply an ability to choose. The ability to choose in turn implies a power over information, which then merely scales to the properties of matter, whether local or universal. REFERENCES Chalmers, David. 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