M. Cortês
Abstract
In “BioCosmology: towards the birth of a new science” (Cortês, Kauffman, Liddle, and Smolin [1–3]) we argue that physics needs total reshaping in order to cross the limitative boundaries of reductionism and move into the new fields of biology and neurosciences. That reshaping is provided by combinatorial innovation. While free will is not possible within the traditional physics methodology of the Newtonian paradigm and determinism, along with the reductionism assumption, our work shows that this must be radically reconsidered. At high complexity scales, Nbody → ∞, where one can speak of living organisms, this failure is even more manifest, and we argue that it goes beyond limitative computational performance. We claim that one cannot integrate equations of motions to predict the genomics of an unborn infant or to predict what a person is going to decide. I further forge a connection between my award-winning work on the quantum gravitational foundations of the arrow of time [4] and the non-reducible, emergent phenomena that operate at the neural science scales where the intense debate of free agency takes place.
Time and Science
Rémy Lestienne, Paul A Harris
World Scientific Publishing
Volume 3, Page 329
2023 November
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