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AMA | June 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Strong Emergence Is a Theory of the Fundamental Constituents

Strong emergence is the idea that there is a way of thinking about some thing universe by dividing it up into constituents rights. In principle, we had a sufficiently powerful computer and the theory of the individual constituents,. We could put them all together in an initial condition, run it and we would get the right answer. That's weak emergence. Strong emergence is you have a theory of the fundamental constituents, but if you put it together, put just a bunch of constituents individually on a computer and asked what happened, you would not get the right Answer.

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