Noveltism

Noveltism - is a philosophy that defines novelty as the highest value in a context of a progress. It considers methods for determining and searching for novelty. Novelty exist outside the paradigm of inheritance, so the goal of Noveltist Search is to minimize the causal relationship between the sought and the existing.

## Philosophy basics

Novelty is a treasure. Novelty shows us the way beyond the imaginable and opens up new possibilities for us. The one who possesses novelty becomes the creator of a new reality.

Noveltism determines the degree of novelty of a subject by how much it differs from what already exists. But the most valuable novelty is Absolute Novelty, the kind of novelty that provides the maximum paradigm shift and cannot be obtained consistently. This is when the answer goes beyond the question, as if you were trying to invent a faster rocket engine and discovered teleportation instead. The person who made such a discovery becomes the founder of a new branch of technological development and changes the face of civilization.

However, in the modern world, almost all research takes place sequentially, on the basis of existing knowledge, a question is formed and its formulation determines the way in which the search for an answer to it is conducted. Moreover, the further people go in a consistent search, the more difficult it becomes to participate in it and the fewer people are involved in it due to the high requirements for their competence and tools. This applies to both science and culture and any other areas of development. It's hard to make it to the big leagues when thousands are already fighting for a spot in there. Absolute novelty always stands at the beginning of any branch of development, so everyone can discover it and everyone can be equally involved in its search, and the one who finds it will hit the jackpot and become the founder of a whole new branch.

However, since absolute novelty cannot follow from the knowledge available, it is almost impossible to formulate what exactly we want to find and in which direction this search should be conducted. The request for absolute novelty is a kind of the Ultimate Question, which cannot be formulated, since we, by definition, cannot know what we are trying to find. You can try to look for “something” where no one have looked yet, but as a rule, we do not know where it is.

Therefore, noveltist methodology is usually based on a search in all directions at once and a natural selection of the results obtained. Such a search can be realized by involving the maximum number of people in it and using randomizers to evenly distribute their efforts. Then the likelihood of finding something new will increase, and if the search results are public and available to all participants, then the most valuable finds will attract more attention, which will ensure their natural selection.

For this reason, we are trying to make research tools available to everyone, so that together we can explore every piece of reality and try all the ways to interact with it in order to find the most interesting and effective ones.

## Tools and Methods

Novelty is very valuable, its like a revolutionary technology or a fresh new idea that no one had before, it gives you an advantage and a possibility to start a new direction of activity. So how to obtain some Novelty?

Noveltist Search is a Search or an undefined object. No properties of this object can be known by definition, because if you can determine those properties based on things you already know, it will reduse the level of novelty. So we can't know what we're searching for, but when it's found, we can assess it novelty by the size of the paradigm shift it makes. In the Reality Tunnels Theory, the object of Novelty is a BlindSpot. If we think about Blindspots not just like a places, but as variations of methodology, it will be suitable deinition of Novelty objects.

Randomization is one the ways to reach a Blindspot, since giving an equal probability to check every possible option is a good way to cancel behavioral patterns and since the search object doesn't depend on them anymore, it may have a bigger novelty. This method is used by some web-explorers, who automaticaly check thousands of random ip-adresses and then selecting from them the most interesting ones. It may be used in some other areas too.

Obviously, a similar problem can be solved by deconstructing the search methodologies, i.e. gradually identifying and removing logical rules and restrictions in the current methodology in order to understand and expand its boundaries. All the postulates of traditional approaches should be questioned. Here you can try to identify the most fundamental methodological pattern and try to go beyond it. In a similar way, for example, a noveltistic trend can be traced in the area of experimental music, where they continually deviate from the principles of harmony in favor of structureless soundscapes that create a lively and constantly changing sound, not like usual music with cyclical patterns.

While doing a research, based on a certain technology or a theory, the Noveltist approach will be to have maximum amount of people involved, assuming, that each of them explores the subject in their own unique way. That will create a large amount of parallel braches of research and the most successfull ones will naturally grab attention due to memetic natural selection. Thats why decentraliased and open-source projects are preferable.

It worth noticing, that Noveltist research may deviate from the academic standarts, because making things in a totally new way is a part of its concept. It is also important to have in mind, that noveltist research shouldn't have a one-track goal, because even if it fails at one goal, it creates a lot of additional discoveries along the way and may switch to their development at any time. Noveltist research is always trying to go multiple ways simultaneously, combining tools and discoveries rom them to benefit each other.