No law?

As has been acknowledged, the law has to be discovered or invented, but it cannot be that there is no law. This is because controls over datasets are natural on the information platform that is the state (see §06.00.03); therefore cataloguing and expanding them is also natural to humans (who need to augment their information processing). As regards Natural law, controls over datasets are natural because Nature itself is a Being and therefore exercises control over the datasets found on it. States giving (human) meaning to Nature, individuals on them (on the information platform that is their state) need to discover these controls so as to augment their information processing (i.e. to control Nature). As regards invented law (regulations), for each new dataset discovered or created by humans, control over it by the creator or first processor is immediate. This control later expands through rules that regulate the access of all other humans (individuals on the information platform that is their state) to these new datasets—thus forming regulation. This process, although applied throughout human history, is uniquely demonstrable today because of the advent of the digital world: because it is entirely new to humanity, new regulations by each state aim to exercise control over it. Human history concurs: until the Enlightenment (the brief exception of ancient Greece notwithstanding), religion was the human way to catalogue Nature’s laws; writing was invented in order to bring into material format (i.e. make known more widely) human regulations (for taxation and military purposes).

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