295 | Solo: Emergence and Layers of Reality

1669.312 - 1692.324 Sean Carroll

Of course, they had no idea that we would have such an effective underlying theory like we have now, but still the perspective is perfectly OK. And these days we use emergence sometimes to mean that and sometimes to mean something much more down to earth just like what Phil Anderson meant, OK? And both ways are fine but they are very, very different especially in their philosophical implications.