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It is often claimed that the fundamental laws of physics are deterministic and time-symmetric and that therefore our experience of the passage of time is an illusion. This paper will critically discuss these claims and show that they are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-20 Barbara Drossel

We develop a system which must be able to perform the same inferences that a human reader of an accident report can do and more particularly to determine the apparent causes of the accident. We describe the general framework in which we are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Farid Nouioua , Daniel Kayser

Epistemic uncertainty is crucial for safety-critical applications and data acquisition tasks. Yet, we find an important phenomenon in deep learning models: an epistemic uncertainty collapse as model complexity increases, challenging the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Andreas Kirsch

We introduce an epistemic information measure between two data streams, that we term $influence$. Closely related to transfer entropy, the measure must be estimated by epistemic agents with finite memory resources via sampling accessible…

The idea of gravity as an "emergent" phenomenon has gained popularity in recent years. I discuss some of the obstacles that any such model must overcome in order to agree with the observational underpinnings of general relativity.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-23 S. Carlip

Large language model-powered multi-agent systems have emerged as powerful tools for simulating complex human-like systems. The interactions within these systems often lead to extreme events whose origins remain obscured by the black box of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ling Tang , Jilin Mei , Dongrui Liu , Chen Qian , Dawei Cheng , Jing Shao , Xia Hu

Just as spontaneous symmetry breaking can be understood in terms of energy, emergent symmetry (more precisely, its `size' and structure) can also be explained by free energy. In particular, in renormalization group flow to rational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-23 Ken Kikuchi

There is a persistent confusion about determinism and predictability. In spite of the opinions of some eminent philosophers (e.g., Popper), it is possible to understand that the two concepts are completely unrelated. In few words we can say…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-05-10 Sergio Caprara , Angelo Vulpiani

Emergent scenario of cosmic evolution is a topic of great interest in recent cosmology, especially because it describes a non-singular origin of the Universe unlike the Big-Bang models. This types of cosmic evolution pattern have already…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-01 Subhayan Maity , Sujayita Bakra

Lawvere has observed that certain 'gros' toposes in algebraic geometry suggest the existence of an 'infinitesimal level', closely related to finite-dimensional local algebras. Motivated by this observation we propose an elementary…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-30 Francisco Marmolejo , Matías Menni

The increasing volume of ecologically and biologically relevant data has revealed a wide collection of emergent patterns in living systems. Analyzing different datasets, ranging from metabolic gene-regulatory to species interaction…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-12-13 Daniel M. Busiello , Samir Suweis , Jorge Hidalgo , Amos Maritan

Problem of classification of all the set of entangled states is considered. Invariance of entangled states relative to transformations from a group of symmetry of qubit space leads to classification of all states of the system through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Constantin V. Usenko

Large Language Models (LLMs) are leading a new technological revolution as one of the most promising research streams toward artificial general intelligence. The scaling of these models, accomplished by increasing the number of parameters…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Leonardo Berti , Flavio Giorgi , Gjergji Kasneci

We propose a model for co-evolving ecosystems that takes into account two levels of description of an organism, for instance genotype and phenotype. Performance at the macroscopic level forces mutations at the microscopic level. These, in…

adap-org · Physics 2007-05-23 Guillermo Abramson , Jose Luis Vega

Scientometric data is used to investigate empirically the emergence of search regimes in Biotechnology, Genomics, and Nanotechnology. Complex regimes can emerge when three independent sources of variance interact. In our model, researchers…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2011-01-14 Gaston Heimeriks , Loet Leydesdorff

The concept of {\em complexity} (as a quantity) has been plagued by numerous contradictory and confusing definitions. By explicitly recognising a role for the observer of a system, an observer that attaches meaning to data about the system,…

Popular Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Russell K. Standish

The volume of phase space may grow super-exponentially ("explosively") with the number of degrees of freedom for certain types of complex systems such as those encountered in biology and neuroscience, where components interact and create…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-26 Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen , Roozbeh H. Pazuki , Gunnar Pruessner , Piergiulio Tempesta

The constraints on the models for the structure formation arising from various cosmological observations at different length scales are reviewed. The status of different models for structure formation is examined critically in the light of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Padmanabhan

Emergent gravity views spacetime as an entity emergent from a more complete theory of interacting fundamental constituents valid at much finer resolution or higher energies, usually assumed to be above the Planck energy. In this view…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-12 B. L. Hu

The geometrical structure is among the most fundamental ingredients in understanding complex systems. Is there any systematic approach in defining structures quantitatively, rather than illustratively? If yes, what are the basic principles…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-27 Lipo Wang , Guiwen Tan , Hui Cao