Simplicity and emergence

Cosmochrony suggests that the apparent complexity of the physical world does not necessarily require complex fundamental laws.

A simple relational rule can generate highly structured phenomena once it is applied repeatedly and subject to structural constraints.

Many familiar physical quantities may therefore represent effective descriptions rather than fundamental ingredients.

In this view, the complexity observed in nature corresponds to different ways of describing the same underlying relational mechanism.

The emergence of spacetime, particles, and interactions can thus be interpreted as different regimes of a single structural process.

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