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229.039 - 253.145 Sean Carroll

But I do think that it's important to clarify all the possible ways in which we might profitably talk about something being emergent without first judging what exactly is going on. And indeed, this is a longstanding ambition of mine. I finally got a chance to write a paper about it with Achuth Parola, who's a student here at Johns Hopkins. We wrote a paper called What Emergence Can Possibly Mean.