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Spurious, Emergent Laws in Number Worlds

General Physics 2019-04-17 v2

Abstract

We study some aspects of the emergence of logos from chaos on a basal model of the universe using methods and techniques from algorithmic information and Ramsey theories. Thereby an intrinsic and unusual mixture of meaningful and spurious, emerging laws surfaces. The spurious, emergent laws abound, they can be found almost everywhere. In accord with the ancient Greek theogony one could say that logos, the Gods and the laws of the universe, originate from "the void," or from chaos, a picture which supports the unresolvable/irreducible lawless hypothesis. The analysis presented in this paper suggests that the "laws" discovered in science correspond merely to syntactical correlations, are local and not universal.

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@article{arxiv.1812.04416,
  title  = {Spurious, Emergent Laws in Number Worlds},
  author = {Cristian S. Calude and Karl Svozil},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.04416},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

24 pages, invited contribution to "Contemporary Natural Philosophy and Philosophies - Part 2" - Special Issue of the journal Philosophies

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