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BruceNakagawa
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While discussing cosmology and quantum mechanics with a colleague, a strange idea began to emerge in our collective argument, and I was wondering if someone here could comment on the plausibility of this argument.
The argument goes as follows, if we establish as an absolute truth that complexity is emergent, the idea that complex systems can only naturally emerge out of simpler systems, if we treat this idea as a raw absolute, when we consider the fabric of reality as a whole what we perceive (from our limited perspective), is that the world of the very large, the entire universe as a single unit, is a much simpler construct than the components "within", complexity then appears to be emergent, we have small complexity when we treat the larger universe as a single unit and has a tendency into higher complexity in direct proportionality with smaller scales.
My question is then, is it plausible to assume that rather than being the quantum reality that produces the larger universe, couldn't it be in fact the opposite?
Has anyone proposed this as a theory before, and if so, can I read more about it?
Is this theory disprovable by something I'm failing to consider?
Thanks
The argument goes as follows, if we establish as an absolute truth that complexity is emergent, the idea that complex systems can only naturally emerge out of simpler systems, if we treat this idea as a raw absolute, when we consider the fabric of reality as a whole what we perceive (from our limited perspective), is that the world of the very large, the entire universe as a single unit, is a much simpler construct than the components "within", complexity then appears to be emergent, we have small complexity when we treat the larger universe as a single unit and has a tendency into higher complexity in direct proportionality with smaller scales.
My question is then, is it plausible to assume that rather than being the quantum reality that produces the larger universe, couldn't it be in fact the opposite?
Has anyone proposed this as a theory before, and if so, can I read more about it?
Is this theory disprovable by something I'm failing to consider?
Thanks