Author
Philip Lilien
Recent research
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
Why should a group containing only six permutations have anything to do with the richer continuous symmetries used in physics? The reconstruction developed here answers by refusing to treat S₃ as a small version of a gauge group. S₃ instead describes something more primitive: thr...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
Why should a group containing only six permutations have anything to do with the richer continuous symmetries used in physics? The reconstruction developed here answers by refusing to treat S₃ as a small version of a gauge group. S₃ instead describes something more primitive: thr...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
This paper develops a closure-theoretic interpretation of the relation between a four-generator phase-spatial structure, a seven-generator electroweak-capable resolution level, and a fifteen-generator SU(4)-scale algebraic envelope. The central distinction is between generator re...
- BiologyOpen access
CLOSURE MATHEMATICS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF WORLDS — V From Agency to Cognitive Worldhood
Cognition is often characterized through memory, prediction, control, internal models, abstraction, or flexible behavior, but these capacities need not coincide. A system can retain information without constructing a world model, predict without preserving causal or counterfactua...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
CPT as Composite Symmetry Closure From Constituent Symmetry Violation to Relational Invariance
This paper asks when that survival is mathematically exact, physically faithful, and experimentally testable. For a reader coming to CPT for the first time, the letters can make the subject look more mysterious than it is. C denotes charge conjugation, P parity, and T time revers...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Wholonomics White Paper Series Core Disclosure Human history is the progressive amplification of value-creating agency. The future of economics depends on whether this amplified agency is directed toward extraction, coherence, or ultimately ontological wealth. This paper is not o...