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Ask Me Anything | April 2023

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

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The Future of Emergence

Rad Antonov: Emergence is an exciting frontier moving forward, but I can't really predict how useful it's going to be in the near or middle term. Maybe you can learn something by direct experimentation and prodding around that we can't with human subjects. The tables and chairs are perfectly good examples of emergent phenomena. Rad Antonov: It doesn't really matter that the more comprehensive theory is made of little things. That's what emergence really is.

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