Axiom I
The Primacy of Information
The fundamental, irreducible substrate of reality is information. This is not information in the abstract, but is defined functionally: Information is any signal, projection, or potential that has the capacity to cause a change in the state of integration of a system. By virtue of existence, every particle, field, and event projects an informational signal.
Under this axiom, matter, energy, space, and time are not primary entities but are emergent, relational properties of these underlying informational processes.