Preface
EMIS Framework is a unified explanatory framework centered on energy.
The term EMIS is defined as a framework name rather than a new ontological claim.
Energy serves as the central regulatory variable, with three fundamental domains structured beneath it: Matter (atom), Information (bit), and Spacetime.
EMIS Framework does not introduce new physical laws.
Instead, it provides a coherent interpretive structure for understanding how change, structure, and constraint interact across these four domains, allowing knowledge from different disciplines to be analyzed within a shared conceptual model.
Goal
Like Euclidean geometry, EMIS Framework aims to construct a comprehensive theoretical structure using a small number of foundational axioms, capable of explaining how complex systems operate and evolve.
Scope
The initial scope of EMIS Framework focuses on the social sciences, where systemic constraints, information flows, and energetic costs are explicitly observable.
Over time, the framework aims to extend toward broader disciplinary domains defined in the UNESCO ISCED-F (Fields of Education and Training 2013) classification system.
Time Horizon
EMIS Framework is conceived as a long-term, evolving theoretical framework, with its structure, formulation, and scope subject to continuous refinement through research and application.
Clarification on Humanities and Social Sciences
EMIS Framework does not aim to reduce humanities to physics.
Its initial focus is on social sciences, where systemic constraints, information flow, and energetic costs are explicitly observable.
Humanities are treated as interpretive and normative domains that interface with the framework, rather than domains to be physically reduced or mathematically constrained.
Core Objective
The objective of EMIS Framework is fixed in a single sentence:
To explain how the world works,
not what the world is.
This objective is descriptive rather than prescriptive. EMIS Framework does not specify values, goals, or optimal behaviors; it characterizes the structural constraints under which systems evolve.
How to Use This Framework
- Start with the Axioms
- Understand the Core Triangle
- Explore specific Disciplines