A World of Structures: Group-Theorethical Symmetries from Infostructural Realism
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https://doi.org/10.48160/18532330me10.222Keywords:
structural realism, symmetries, informationAbstract
Ontic Structural Realism, as one of the most current trends in philosophy of science and metaphysics, defends the idea that the world is ultimately constituted of real physical structures. French (2014) regards physical symmetries as the foundational structure of a world without objects. On the other hand, Ladyman and Ross (2007) hold that the world is essentially made of non-redundant informational structure. I will argue in this paper that these two positions are by no means incompatible, as I will show by interpreting French’s physical symmetries as real structures encompassing/ compressing every piece of information (Kolmogorov complexity) within the world.
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