Physical (A)Causality Determinism, Randomness and Uncaused Events /
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book addresses the physical phenomenon of events that seem to occur spontaneously and without any known cause. These are to be contrasted with events that happen in a (pre-)determined, predictable, lawful, and causal way. All our knowledge is...
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| Series: | Fundamental Theories of Physics,
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Table of Contents:
- Part I Embedded observers, reflexive perception and representation: Intrinsic and extrinsic observation mode
- Embedded observers and self-expression
- Reflexive measurement
- Intrinsic self-representation
- Part II Provable unknowns: On what is entirely hopeless
- Forecasting and unpredictability
- Induction by rule inference
- Other types of recursion theoretic unknowables
- What if there are no laws? Emergence of laws
- Part III Quantum unknowns: "Shut up and calculate"
- Evolution by permutation
- Quantum mechanics in a nutshell
- Quantum oracles
- Vacuum fluctuations
- Radioactive decay
- Part IV Exotic unknowns: Classical continua and infinities
- Classical (in)determinism
- Deterministic chaos
- Partition logics, finite automata and generalized urn models
- Part V Transcendence: Miracles
- Dualistic interfaces
- Part VI Executive summary: Executive summary
- Appendix A: Formal (in)computability and randomness
- B: Two particle correlations and expectations.