2025/12/29 by Drew Slawson · 1 voice
Computer Science · Neuroscience · Physics and Astronomy · #Chaos, Complexity, and Education #Complex Systems and Dynamics #Embodied and Extended Cognition
paper · doi:10.5281/zenodo.18082066
openalex publication_date 2025/12/29 · openalex created_date 2025/12/30 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/01
We present a large-scale dynamical simulation designed to test whether coherent causal structure can arise under conditions deliberately engineered to suppress organization. The system was initialized in a fully pre-geometric regime, lacking spacetime, temporal ordering, causal direction, or material degrees of freedom, and was subjected to continuous adversarial entropy injection and feedback destabilization. Despite these hostile conditions, the system consistently converged to a compact, stable causal lattice comprising 63–65 nodes, with zero measured topological variance and high global stability. The emergent structure persisted under sustained entropy pressure without equilibrium assumptions, fine-tuning, or external constraints. These results demonstrate that causality can arise intrinsically as a survivable attractor within sufficiently expressive interaction dynamics. Rather than being destroyed by entropy, causal organization appears to emerge because of it. The findings challenge conventional hierarchies that treat spacetime as fundamental and causality as derivative, and suggest that causal order may represent a primary organizing principle in complex systems.