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2020

Hodology

Kent, Adrian

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A hodological law causes the evolution of the universe to tend to follow particular types of path.

I give simple illustrations in toy models and discuss how Kolmogorov complexity characterises the extent to which hodological laws explain, rather than merely describe, data.

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