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openalexZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026-07-24Cited by 0

The Universe as a Trained Model: Projection, Generalization, and Causal Hardening — A Position Paper on a Physics-as-Learning Metaphor

Yanyan Jin

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 distortion produced when a low-dimensional observer samples a deterministic process in a much higher-dimensional space, in analogy with the grokking phenomenon in neural networks; (II) the universe's dimensional reduction reframed as a grokking-style generalization phase transition, with the cosmological constant playing the role of residual loss and "missing" extra dimensions pruned rather than compactified; (III) the arrow of time reframed as causal hardening — one dimension losing backward traversal under an irreversible constraint, with causality as the asymmetric regularization required to avoid computational deadlock. This is a compressive metaphor and a position paper, not a claim of new physical results; it includes explicit scope/non-claims, small-scale machine-learning experiments motivating the analogy, testable directions within ML systems, and limitations.

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openalexZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026-07-23

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openalexZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026-07-23

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