295 | Solo: Emergence and Layers of Reality

3682.489 - 3706.951 Sean Carroll

are so built in to how we think about the world that we sometimes forget it didn't have to be that way. If I imagine that I have a certain set of what physicists call degrees of freedom, whether they be atoms or values of a field at different points in space, the degrees of freedom are the things you have to specify to tell me what point you're at in the state space of the theory, okay?