Introduction
Physicist John Archibald Wheeler stated that:
All things physical are information-theoretic in origin and this is a participatory universe... Observer participancy gives rise to information; and information gives rise to physics.
By using Fisher information, in particular the loss I - J incurred during observation, the EPI principle provides a powerful new approach for deriving laws governing many aspects of nature and human society. EPI can be seen as an extension of information theory that encompasses much theoretical physics and chemistry. Examples include the Schrödinger wave equation and the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution law. EPI has been used to derive a number of fundamental laws of physics, biology, the biophysics of cancer growth,chemistry, and economics. EPI can also be seen as a game against nature, first proposed by Charles Sanders Peirce. The approach does require prior knowledge of an appropriate invariance principle or data.
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