Information law regards objective things as a system, the movement of objective things as a systematic process, and then abstracts this process into the process of information transmission and information transformation. Through the analysis and processing of information flow, we can realize the regularity of the movement process of complex systems. Therefore, the information method is a research method that directly starts from the whole and synthesizes the system process with the viewpoint of connection and transformation.
The first step of using information method is to abstract the research object into information and its transformation process according to some corresponding relationship between the research object and the information it sends out, regardless of the specific form of the material and energy of the research object.
The second step of using information method is to conduct qualitative and quantitative research on information in the process of refining information, and analyze information from both qualitative and quantitative aspects to achieve an objective understanding of the research object.
The third step of information method is to comprehensively sort out the first-hand data obtained in the previous analysis process, establish various models, and simulate information and/or sources. This is the key step and the most difficult step of information law.
The fourth step of using information method is to judge the function of simulated information process, clarify its mechanism, make predictions, and improve the model according to the newly obtained information to make it perfect.
These steps of information method are widely used in geological exploration. In fact, in the actual prospecting process, people have consciously or unconsciously used information methods. For a detailed description of this, please refer to Chapter 3.