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AMA | June 2022
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Is There a Strong Emergence in the Theory of the Constituents?
Strong emergence doesn't apply to tiny systems like atoms or molecules. But if your small systems are something like peop then maybe this, the relationship is more complicated. We have a very clean, crisp relationship between atoms and gases or solids. The relationship between people and societies is a litl bit messier. Where do you draw the boundaries and how do things affect each other in stuff like that? So i'm open to the possibility that, when the individual constituents are themselves complex, there might be situations in which strong emergence is a useful way of thinking about things. I am a lifelong lleftist who believes that woke ideology is dang os, devisive, aletist and
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