Hypothesis database

Self-replicating RNA molecules, acting as both genetic material and catalyst, preceded DNA and proteins and bootstrapped the first evolving systems.

All that exists is physical, and every phenomenon — including mind — is ultimately constituted by physical processes described (in principle) by physi…

Space and time are not basic but arise from a deeper, possibly information- or entanglement-based structure; gravity is a thermodynamic/emergent pheno…

Information is not merely a description of physical systems but an irreducible ingredient from which physical reality is built ("it from bit").

Given the ubiquity of organic chemistry, liquid water, and habitable environments, simple life arises readily and is widespread, even if intelligence…

Subjective experience is a basic feature of reality not fully explained by, or derivable from, physical facts about the brain.

A system is conscious to the degree that it possesses integrated information (Φ); experience is identical to a maximally irreducible cause–effect stru…

Time is not a basic ingredient of reality but emerges relationally from a deeper timeless structure, as in the timeless Wheeler–DeWitt formulation of…

The wavefunction never collapses; all measurement outcomes occur, each in a separate branch of a continually splitting universal wavefunction.

There is no ultimate bottom level; what we call "fundamental" is always an effective description of deeper structure, with no final layer of brute fac…

The observed anomalies reflect a breakdown of Newtonian/Einsteinian gravity at low accelerations rather than unseen mass.

Physical reality is not merely described by mathematics but is a mathematical structure; all consistent structures exist and physical existence is mat…