South African cosmologist who co-authored with Stephen Hawking The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time and has argued against the multiverse and for the reality of top-down causation in complex systems.
The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time (with Hawking): the rigorous mathematical treatment of global causal structure, singularities, and black holes in general relativity. Top-down causation: higher-level features of complex systems can causally influence lower-level components — emergence is real.
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