Theory of Knowledge: Information Fields and the Epistemological Foundation of Scientific Intuition

The history of science has a structure. From the Greek unification of knowledge and life through the Galilean mathematization of nature, through the extraordinary leaps of 1850–1950, through the progressive institutionalization of the method — the arc is not accidental. It is a teleological movement with an internal logic that Edmund Husserl, writing in 1936, identified with precision: in constituting themselves through the exclusion of the epistemic subject, the natural sciences gained the capacity to measure and predict while progressively losing access to the organizational ground from which genuine discovery emerges. The decades since have confirmed the diagnosis in ways Husserl could not have anticipated. The great leaps of the early twentieth century were produced by scientists who reported, consistently, that formal discovery followed a prior act of direct organismic insight — arriving, without exception, during conditions of parasympathetic predominance: in dreams, in relaxed contemplation, at the boundary of sleep. The institutionalization of the method that followed those leaps progressively eliminated these conditions. The result is visible in the evidence: a reproducibility crisis across the sciences, a stagnation of fundamental discovery, a clinical practice in which the protocol replaces the encounter, a social fabric in which the conditioned pattern matrix is systematically amplified at the expense of genuine field contact. These are not separate problems. They are one structural dynamic — the progressive suppression of what Husserl called the Ur-Recht, the organism’s original right to direct contact with its own field reality — operating simultaneously in the laboratory, the clinic, and the social fabric. White Paper V argues that the Information Fields (ΨI) framework provides the physical mechanism through which the Ur-Recht can be precisely reinstated. Following Meneghetti’s proposal of a bilogical scientific method, the existing inductive-deductive structure is retained and preceded by the logic of intuition as its necessary organizational first step. The Ur-Recht is not recovered by abandoning rigorous method. It is recovered by completing it.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-06-28
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21045423
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Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
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Theory of Knowledge: Information Fields and the Epistemological Foundation of Scientific Intuition

Erico de Lima Azevedo
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
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Theory of Knowledge: Information Fields and the Epistemological Foundation of Scientific Intuition

Erico de Lima Azevedo
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The history of science has a structure. From the Greek unification of knowledge and life through the Galilean mathematization of nature, through the extraordinary leaps of 1850–1950, through the progressive institutionalization of the method — the arc is not accidental. It is a teleological movement with an internal logic that Edmund Husserl, writing in 1936, identified with precision: in constituting themselves through the exclusion of the epistemic subject, the natural sciences gained the capacity to measure and predict while progressively losing access to the organizational ground from which genuine discovery emerges. The decades since have confirmed the diagnosis in ways Husserl could not have anticipated. The great leaps of the early twentieth century were produced by scientists who reported, consistently, that formal discovery followed a prior act of direct organismic insight — arriving, without exception, during conditions of parasympathetic predominance: in dreams, in relaxed contemplation, at the boundary of sleep. The institutionalization of the method that followed those leaps progressively eliminated these conditions. The result is visible in the evidence: a reproducibility crisis across the sciences, a stagnation of fundamental discovery, a clinical practice in which the protocol replaces the encounter, a social fabric in which the conditioned pattern matrix is systematically amplified at the expense of genuine field contact. These are not separate problems. They are one structural dynamic — the progressive suppression of what Husserl called the Ur-Recht, the organism’s original right to direct contact with its own field reality — operating simultaneously in the laboratory, the clinic, and the social fabric. White Paper V argues that the Information Fields (ΨI) framework provides the physical mechanism through which the Ur-Recht can be precisely reinstated. Following Meneghetti’s proposal of a bilogical scientific method, the existing inductive-deductive structure is retained and preceded by the logic of intuition as its necessary organizational first step. The Ur-Recht is not recovered by abandoning rigorous method. It is recovered by completing it.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) (BR), Research Institute Orion (UA), Orion Corporation (United Kingdom) (GB)
Reduced inequalities
Openalex Percentile: Top 5%
Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
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