2025/12/29 by Drew Slawson · 1 voice
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution #Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life #Statistical Mechanics and Entropy
paper · doi:10.5281/zenodo.18081831
openalex publication_date 2025/12/29 · openalex created_date 2025/12/30 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/01
We present a large-scale computational study examining whether coherent causal organization can arise in the absence of spacetime, temporal direction, matter, or predefined physical laws. The system is initialized in a fully pre-geometric regime characterized by maximal instability, nonlocal interaction, extreme entropy gradients, and vanishing stochastic noise, deliberately biasing the dynamics against structured outcomes. Despite these hostile conditions, the system consistently converges to a compact and unique causal configuration with zero topological variance across evaluation. The emergent structure exhibits high global stability, balanced causal connectivity, and nontrivial complexity, persisting without decay or oscillation under continued destabilizing dynamics. These findings indicate that causal structure can arise intrinsically as a robust attractor in sufficiently expressive interaction systems, independent of spacetime assumptions or equilibrium constraints. The results suggest a potential pathway by which ordered causal organization may emerge from genuinely pre-physical regimes, with implications for foundational physics, early-universe cosmology, and the theory of complex systems.