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158.439 - 183.879 Sean Carroll

This is a useful idea of emergence in the sense that we're talking about it here. It's talked about a lot both in science context and in philosophy context. But it's also a little frustrating. It's frustratingly vague about what exactly is meant. Part of this is because different people use it to mean different things. Part of it is because different people want it to mean different things.