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A Sketch of the Proposed Paradigm: The Logiverse’s Postulates and Hypotheses
Enigma
The Question of Origin(s)
Creation Stories
The Ancient Greeks: From Supernatural to Natural Explanations for What There Is and How It Got That Way
“Natural Philosophy,” or the Scientific Turn
What Scientists Think About What There Is and How It Got That Way
The Logiverse’s Solution to the Origin Problem
The Logiverse’s “Nothing”
Scientific Metaphors, Transparency, and Opacity
The Logiverse and Space-Time
Logic’s Ontological Status
Theories of Ideas: Do Ideas Represent Their Objects?
The Ontological Status of Universals and Abstract Entities
A Brief History of Logic
The Ontology of Logic and Math
Epistemic and Ontic Structural Realism: Some Contemporary Thinking on the Reality of Forms
The Logiverse’s Ontology: Logic Is the Structure of the Universe
Why Logic?
Tegmark’s Mathematical Universe Hypothesis
A Mathematical Universe, Evolution, and Time
What Is Time?
A Mathematical Universe and Ontic Structural Realism
Are There Better Ways to Argue for the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis?
On Consciousness: Some Preliminaries
Minds and Bodies: A Cursory Overview of Substance Dualism and Monism in the Western Tradition
Thinking About Consciousness Post–Substance Dualism
An Epistemic or Ontological Issue? Consciousness and Quantum Science
Consciousness and Personal Identity: Am I a Strange Loop?
A Brief Sketch of the Logiverse’s Consciousness Hypothesis
Consciousness in a Mathematical Universe (A New Paradigm for Turing’s Machine and Searle’s Chinese Room)
Brains, Experience, and Consciousness
Math and Computing
The Origin of Consciousness and the Emergence of Self-Consciousness: Hofstadter’s Strange Loop
The Origin of Consciousness and the Emergence of Self-Consciousness: Emergence, Causality, and Complexity
Consciousness, Self, and Physics
Gödel and Undecidability
Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness
Integrated Information Theory
Infinite Series, Transforms, X-Ray Crystallography, and the Generation of a Material World
Wolfram’s Hypergraphs and the Physics Project
Conway’s Game of Life
Quantum Physics and the Double Slit Experiment
Many Worlds and the Axiom of Selection
Some Conceptual Issues Produced by the Copenhagen Interpretation
Many Worlds
Quantum Field Theory
Gauge Symmetries and Quantum Field Theory
String Theory
The Logiverse and Quantum Mechanics
TP/SL Model-Imposed Constraints
What Einstein Accomplished with Special Relativity
General Relativity, Special Relativity, and Causation
The Power of Mathematical Equations for Einstein’s Thought Experiments: The Big Bang, an Expanding Universe, and Quantum Vacuums
Creating a Model That Shows Special Relativistic Properties
Current Set of Logiverse Axioms That Explain Relativistic Phenomena
Anthropic Principle
Evolution of Human Life
Determinism
Indeterminism
Compatibilism
Free Will, Determinism, and Moral Responsibility
Does the Principle of Alternate Possibilities Fail?
Which Is More Rational, Determinism or Indeterminism?
The Logiverse, Consciousness, and Free Will
The Logiverse Postulates and Resolutions of Conundrums
The Logiverse’s TP/SL Model and Resolutions of Conundrums
Physical Correlates of Mathematical Parameters
Future Directions
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