Towards a Post Reductionist Science: The Open Universe

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2009-07-15

arxiv.org/abs/0907.2492v1

Physics

History and Philosophy of Physics

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In this paper I discuss the reality that deductive inference is not the only way we explain in science. I discuss the role of the opportunity for an adaptation in the biosphere and claim that such an opportunity is a 'blind final cause', not an efficient cause, yet shapes evolution. I also argue that Darwinian exaptations are not describable by sufficient natural law. Based on an argument of Sir Karl Popper, I claim that no law, or function, f, maps a decoherence process in a Special Relativity setting from a specific space-time slice into its future. If true this suggests there can be no theory of everything entailing all that happens. I then discuss whether we can view laws as 'enabling constraints' and what they enable. Finally, in place of the weak Anthropic principle in a multiverse, I suggest that we might consider Darwin all the way down. It is not impossible that a single universe has an abiotic natural selection process for laws as enabling constraints and that the single universe that 'wins' is ours. One possible criterion of winning might be 'most rapid growth of the Adjacent Possible of the universe'.

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