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The Tablet of the Metalaw

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Reality presents to us in multiple forms, as a layered pyramid. Physics is the foundation, and should be made as solid and complete as possible. More organized levels stand on this fundamental level—chemistry, biology, psychology, social sciences etc. Suppose we will find the unified theory of the fundamental physical laws. Will we then be able to deduce the higher levels, or they have their own life, not completely depending on the foundations? At the higher levels we see goals, life, and even consciousness, which seem to be more than mere constructs of the fundamental constituents. Are all these high level structures completely reducible to the basis, or by contrary, they affect in turn the lower levels? Are mathematics and logic enough to solve these puzzles? Are there questions that objective science cannot even define rigorously? Why is there something rather than nothing? What is the world made of? What is consciousness?.

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    The model proposed in [4] unifies into a simple algebra leptons and quarks of a generation, as well as the gauge symmetries, in a minimal way, without predicting new particles, forces, or proton decay.

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    Brendan Foster

  3. Foundational Questions Institute, Decatur, Georgia, USA

    Zeeya Merali

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Stoica, C. (2018). The Tablet of the Metalaw. In: Aguirre, A., Foster, B., Merali, Z. (eds) Wandering Towards a Goal. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75726-1_17

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