If you just keep some fraction of the information about the underlying system, it does not allow you to predict anything at all. So emergence is a special, wonderful, extraordinarily useful feature of nature and reality. The point is that we'll actually, letme, let me get richard's question first, coause maybe this will help u. There's a lot we don't understand about emergence.
Welcome to the September 2021 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). I take the large number of questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable size — based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good — and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic. Enjoy!
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