Why spacetime has a life of its own
pp. 77-86
in: Shyam Wuppuluri, Giancarlo Ghirardi (eds), Space, time and the limits of human understanding, Berlin, Springer, 2017Abstract
This chapter is a brief survey of some of the reasons, including a new one, for thinking. Space (or spacetime) is a thing in its own right. This means it is not reducible to or emergent from matter/energy. Space (spacetime) interacts with matter/energy, but it has a life of its own.