Information Metaphysics, Naturalism and the Computational

Husserl's phenomenology began as a method for exploring consciousness. However, it applies also to understanding some key components of information arrangement.

I propose to treat Husserl's "phenomenological reduction as an "information reduction that will help philosophers formulate a general metaphysics of information. I propose also to explore the implications of this reduction with a focus on two related issues,

1. the model of computation that is made explicit by it and
2. the informational aspects of traditional metaphysics that this model makes apparent.

With a proper comportment toward the history of Western metaphysics and a fully generalized model of computation, I hope to show that information metaphysics is nothing new, but rather the natural culmination of Western metaphysics, beginning with the Presocrates. In other words, phenomenology, when used as a method for the philosophy of information, can help us to see some of what was implicit in the history of metaphysics all along, namely, that any general theory of metaphysics is, and has always been, a theory of the arrangement of information and the rules and mechanisms for its computation.