Lack of fundamental laws
There is a philosophical debate within the
physics community as to whether a theory of everything deserves to be called the fundamental law of the universe. One view is the hard reductionist position that the ToE is
the fundamental law and that all other theories that apply within the universe
are a consequence of the ToE. Another view is that emergent laws, which govern the
behavior of complex
systems,
should be seen as equally fundamental. Examples of emergent laws are the second
law of thermodynamics and the theory of natural selection. The advocates of
emergence argue that emergent laws, especially those describing complex or
living systems are independent of the low-level, microscopic laws. In this
view, emergent laws are as fundamental as a ToE.
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