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Direct From Darwin: Deriving Advanced Optimizers From Evolutionary First Principles
Daniel Grimmer
Evolutionary computation has long promised to deliver both high-performance optimization tools as well as rigorous scientific simulations of Darwinian evolution. However, modern al…
From Humean Laws to a Neo-Kantian Spacetime: A Dynamics-First View of Topology
Daniel Grimmer
Do the spacetime manifolds which feature in our best scientific theories reflect anything metaphysically weighty in the world (e.g., any fundamental substances or relations)? Shoul…
Spacetime Representation Theory: Setting the Scope of the ISE Method of Topological Redescription
Daniel Grimmer
Spacetime dualities arise whenever two theories -- despite being structurally equivalent in some sense -- seemingly provide us with two radically different spatiotemporal descripti…
Introducing the ISE Methodology: A Powerful New Tool for Topological Redescription
Daniel Grimmer
This paper introduces a powerful new tool for topological redescription, the ISE Methodology. These tools allow us to remove and replace a theory's topological underpinnings just a…
Deflating Spacetime: A Dynamics-First View of the Spacetime Manifold
Daniel Grimmer
What, if anything, can help us explain the dynamical behavior of matter? One may be tempted here to appeal to the laws of nature, or to the world's geometric structure, or even to…
A Discrete Analog of General Covariance -- Part 2: Despite what you've heard, a perfectly Lorentzian lattice theory
Daniel Grimmer
A crucial step in the history of General Relativity was Einstein's adoption of the principle of general covariance which demands a coordinate independent formulation for our spacet…