How Nature is Conformable to Herself: A View from Quantum Cosmology

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In his essay "Nature Conformable to Herself" the late Murray Gell-Mann expands on an observation of Newton that theories of seemingly disparate phenomena in the universe often make use of similar ideas and similar mathematical structure.

• Newton summarized that by saying that nature was very consonant and conformable to herself.
• This essay uses a model of quantum cosmology to illustrate how, why, and when nature is conformable to herself.