Integrated learning: Paradigm for a unified approach

All of reality derives from disturbances to equilibrated states (controlled systems). This realization allows one to develop a generic feedback/feedforward control model as a paradigm for all of the laws of physics. The model is formulated from seven fundamental axioms, upon which are based seven corresponding theorems - among them, the one that defines Potential Energy as the source for all of reality. The output - Kinetic Energy - of the model is experienced (feedback signals which are in the form of dimensions of perception: including time, length, mass, temperature and electric charge) by an observer (frame-of-reference) along a doubly-infinite continuum that is arbitrarily divided into seven scales of perception. These range from sub-nuclear to super-cosmic. Adding to scale-of-perception and frame-of-reference the concept of resolution - which includes considerations of structure, order, and relation - completes the tripartite set of elements that are the foundations of knowledge. A minimum-energy principle (controlling system) is introduced to close the loop in the control model. Operationally, this constraint is manifest as control signals that attenuate the randomness of transitions among quasi-equilibrated states, forcing such perceived transitions to proceed along optimized paths (reference signals in the control model).