Is There a Relationship Between Naturalness and Emergence?

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We can't demand answers to all the big questions right away. I'm not sure how we would know other than to be able to say, thinking about the world using the concept of infinity turns out to be way more useful than thinking about it in some finite or discrete sense. If you think of naturalness as just, this is something that would not surprise us given our expectations. That is such a broad category, that it's hard to know what its relationship would be with anything,. much less with emergence.

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