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Constraint, Empowerment, and Guidance: A Conjectural Classification of Laws of Nature
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 March 2002
Abstract
This paper introduces a conjecture that laws of nature may be of different kinds, in particular that there may, in addition to laws which constrain outcomes (C-laws), be laws which empower systems to direct or select outcomes (E-laws) and laws which guide systems in such selections (G-laws). The paper defends this conjecture by suggesting that it is not excluded by anything we know, is plausible, and is potentially of great explanatory power.
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