# Spurious, Emergent Laws in Number Worlds

**Authors:** Cristian S. Calude, Karl Svozil

arXiv: 1812.04416 · 2019-04-17

## TL;DR

This paper explores how meaningful and spurious laws emerge from chaos in a universe model, suggesting that scientific laws are local correlations rather than universal truths, using algorithmic and Ramsey theories.

## Contribution

It introduces a novel approach combining algorithmic information and Ramsey theories to analyze the emergence of laws from chaos in a universe model.

## Key findings

- Emergent laws are widespread and often spurious.
- Scientific laws are likely local correlations, not universal.
- The universe's laws may originate from chaos or the void.

## Abstract

We study some aspects of the emergence of logos from chaos on a basal model of the universe using methods and techniques from algorithmic information and Ramsey theories. Thereby an intrinsic and unusual mixture of meaningful and spurious, emerging laws surfaces. The spurious, emergent laws abound, they can be found almost everywhere. In accord with the ancient Greek theogony one could say that logos, the Gods and the laws of the universe, originate from "the void," or from chaos, a picture which supports the unresolvable/irreducible lawless hypothesis. The analysis presented in this paper suggests that the "laws" discovered in science correspond merely to syntactical correlations, are local and not universal.

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