openalexZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026-07-24
The Universe as a Trained Model: Projection, Generalization, and Causal Hardening — A Position Paper on a Physics-as-Learning Metaphor
We present a unified conceptual scaffold in which the observable universe is described as if it were the deployed artifact of a learning/optimization process. Three interlocking theses: (I) the apparent randomness of quantum mechanics reframed as a projection artifact — the disto…