295 | Solo: Emergence and Layers of Reality

3421.03 - 3443.107 Sean Carroll

these collective variables, the density and pressure and so forth at every point in space. They are smooth, continuous fields. Doesn't that look like not a coarse graining map? Doesn't that look like we've increased the amount of information? But that's a little bit fake because if you wanted to do the Mark Waddell thing and put the thing on a computer, you would actually discretize space.