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AMA | September 2021

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

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Does Emergence Give Us Human Beings Some Understanding That Laplace's Demon Wouldn't Have?

i could easily imagine laplace's demon just knowing the microscopic laws, right? Just knowing the most compreend fundamental level of reality. I mean, after all, if you have the exact solution in your head, who cares about the simplifications,. But i can also imagine a version of lapas's demon that understood not just the microscopic level, but every possible level of the emergint descriptions of reality. It doesn't even matter quantum versus classical energy is a property. So it's none of those things. Energy, i think the right way to think energy has nothing to do with mass or field frequency and everything to do with conserved water. And since energy is conserved

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