It's a philosophy I've assembled myself from many sources, so there's no one book about it, but definitely a lot of sources of inspiration.
My understanding of the nature of time comes mainly from Julian Barbour's book "the End of Time", which itself is not an easy read and took me a long time to digest. Although, the philosophy is compatible with more conventional theories of time, as long as it postulates time as a structure that is somehow internal to a universe.
There's endless literature about Conway's Game of Life and cellular automata, although since it's used just as a metaphor here, it's enough to just play with the game itself for a while. Greg Egan's "Permutation City", while fiction, is an interesting exploration of the concept of the boundary between a simulated universe and the reality that contains it.
For more about how causality in our universe arises as a consequence of specific properties of nature, I'm not sure exactly what to recommend but maybe Feynman's lectures on physics are a good place to start.
For other perspectives on causality, Judea Pearl's "Causality" is a classic. But heavy.
It's a philosophy I've assembled myself from many sources, so there's no one book about it, but definitely a lot of sources of inspiration.
My understanding of the nature of time comes mainly from Julian Barbour's book "the End of Time", which itself is not an easy read and took me a long time to digest. Although, the philosophy is compatible with more conventional theories of time, as long as it postulates time as a structure that is somehow internal to a universe.
There's endless literature about Conway's Game of Life and cellular automata, although since it's used just as a metaphor here, it's enough to just play with the game itself for a while. Greg Egan's "Permutation City", while fiction, is an interesting exploration of the concept of the boundary between a simulated universe and the reality that contains it.
For more about how causality in our universe arises as a consequence of specific properties of nature, I'm not sure exactly what to recommend but maybe Feynman's lectures on physics are a good place to start.
For other perspectives on causality, Judea Pearl's "Causality" is a classic. But heavy.