Emergence is often described in terms of the slogan 'the whole is greater than the sum of the
parts'. We assemble a model building from building blocks. If we understand the properties …

Biologists, philosophers, and mathematicians building upon Robert Rosen's non-algorithmic
theories of life using Relational Biology and Category Theory have continued to develop his …

Several scientists, scientific institutions, and philosophers have argued that science is
committed to Methodological Naturalism (MN), the view that science, by virtue of its methods …

Idealization and the Laws of Nature Page 1 SPRINGER BRIEFS IN PHILOSOPHY Billy Wheeler
Idealization and the Laws of Nature Page 2 SpringerBriefs in Philosophy Page 3 SpringerBriefs …

It is often said that the best system account of laws (BSA) needs supplementing with a theory
of perfectly natural properties. The'strength'and'simplicity'of a system is language-relative …

Informational structural realism (ISR) offers a new way to understand the nature of the
“structure” that structural realists claim our best scientific theories get right about the world …

The aim of this work is to apply information theoretic ideas to the notion of fundamentality. I
will argue that if one adopts pancomputationalism (the idea that the world is a computer of …

Pancomputational emergence is a strong form of emergence which identifies higher-level
aggregate entities as necessary for the universe to “calculate” the behaviour of complex …

This discussion note responds to objections by Twardy, Gardner, and Dowe to my earlier
claim that empirical data sets are algorithmically incompressible. Twardy, Gardner, and …

In this chapter, I assess the hypothesis that the world is a computing device. According to
this hypothesis, programs or algorithms running on this device generate the numerical …