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The path integral formulation of energetic causal set models of the universe
Lee Smolin
I study several aspects of the path(st) integral we formulated in previous papers on energetic causal sets with Cortes and others. The focus here is on quantum field theories, incl…
Non-local Field Theory from Matrix Models
Andrzej Banburski, Jaron Lanier, Vasudev Shyam +2
We show that a class of matrix theories can be understood as an extension of quantum field theory which has non-local interactions. This reformulation is based on the Wigner-Weyl t…
Biocosmology: Biology from a cosmological perspective
Marina Cortês, Stuart A. Kauffman, Andrew R. Liddle +1
The Universe contains everything that exists, including life. And all that exists, including life, obeys universal physical laws. Do those laws then give adequate foundations for a…
The TAP equation: evaluating combinatorial innovation in Biocosmology
Marina Cortês, Stuart A. Kauffman, Andrew R. Liddle +1
We investigate solutions to the TAP equation, a phenomenological implementation of the Theory of the Adjacent Possible. Several implementations of TAP are studied, with potential a…
Biocosmology: Towards the birth of a new science
Marina Cortês, Stuart A. Kauffman, Andrew R. Liddle +1
Cosmologists wish to explain how our Universe, in all its complexity, could ever have come about. For that, we assess the number of states in our Universe now. This plays the role…
Views, variety and celestial spheres
Lee Smolin
This paper describes a continuation of the program of causal views, in which the world consists of nothing but a vast number of partial views of its past. Each view is associated t…