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@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Temporal naturalism commits to three theses [^1]:
 
 The inclusive reality of time entails that causal relationships ordered in time are an irreducible aspect of the universe. This is supported by the ‘phenomenal particularity of time’, which cannot be rejected via the premise that the laws and causal types of the universe seem to be time-independent, as such features of cosmic evolution conceivably fail in the hot, dense, unstable state of the universe (the Big Bang) even in the traditional standard model of particle physics. Furthermore, mathematics only selectively describes non-temporal and non-phenomenal aspects of the world, and therefore leaves out qualia; hence, if qualia are structurally absent in mathematics, instead of rejecting the reality of qualia (which is arguably epistemically more certain than supra-experiential commitments of physics), natural philosophy should positively tackle qualia and the phenomenal particularity of time in a manner that is revisionary for traditional physics and physicalism.
 
-### The singular existence of the universe
+### Singular existence of the universe
 
 Since according to the above thesis, time is a global ‘stuff’ of the cosmos (which does not contradict general relativity in careful reformulations such as shape dynamics) and timeless laws are merely a stable mode in the cooled-down state of the universe, explanatory power for relational events [^2] is to be found in a historical, evolutionary description of structure formation and not symmetry-involving, fixed-structure laws which are only effective in the stable states of the universe (this can be captured in the maxim, “*cosmology should study the evolution of structure, not the structure of evolution*”). This means that historically causally connected regions constitute a single universe and any regions forever causally disconnected from such a universe form other universes, but with no explanatory power in the former universe. Therefore, genuine science with explanatory closure and empirically falsifiable implications cannot involve a multiverse of eternally causally disconnected regions, contrary to traditional anthropic approaches to questions such as ‘why these cosmic initial conditions and laws?’. Instead, the effective laws of the current stable state of the universe must emerge via self-organization of the singular [^3] universe as it evolves in cosmic time. The untapped explanatory power of this scheme is analogous to that of evolution theory in the context of how complex lifeforms can self-organize while satisfying explanatory closure of the biosphere (such as Kauffman’s far-from-equilibrium dynamics).