MRTE classification model



Essential characteristics of information



The MRTE classification model is an experiment/trial, so that counts also for the "essential characteristics of information”.


The essential characteristics of information are the fundamental/intrinsic/not-optional characteristics of information and they are within the MRTE classification model within the column names Matter (What), Space (Where), Time (When) and Energy (Why), respectively:

unreal

movable particle

out displacement

cause



Vertical: basic characteristics

V = variable

I = invariable

Horizontal:

sizes/values


Out-in


In-in


In-out


Out-out


Shape = structure = internal place


great

equal

small

unequal

What/who: shape

I-I

matter

unreal

true

real

untrue

Where: place

I-V

space

reach

movable particle

source

route

When: displacement

V-I

time

out → in (input)

in displacement


in → out (output)

out displacement

Why/how: metamorphosis

V-V

energy

result

co-operate

cause

counter-act




The time division (input – in displacement – output – out displacement) is considered as the most basic scheme of an empirical cycle.


Within each stage of the time division seems one essential characteristic of information most functional, namely the characteristic of information in the same column.


Each stage of the time division consists schematically of the space division.

The matter division and the energy division can be applied to (objects within) the time division.


The functions of the essential characteristics of information within the four stages of the time division:


1. input: the reality (real) is translated into info (unreal)


2. internal displacement: the info circulates within the observing organ or observing device and makes connections


3. output: the observer contributes to his/her/its environment, causes changes


4. external displacement: external displacement is actually a type of internal displacement, the observer cannot know for sure his/her/its environment: the reality can only be known as information, in extreme: the environment could be anything, also the fourth stage is the inverse of the former three stages.


The second stage is often divided into two, relating to the observation and relating to the plan or act, for instance induction and reduction.


The functions of the essential characteristics of information may not look – or be practical, but being aware of these essential characteristics of information within an (empirical) cycle may contribute to better understanding in system thinking and thinking in the interweaving of cycles (and so balances).


And again:

The MRTE classification model is an experiment/trial, so that counts also for the "essential characteristics of information”.