295 | Solo: Emergence and Layers of Reality

3896.812 - 3923.943 Sean Carroll

not the length of the program, but the time it takes to run the program to predict that. And you could use either one for this particular purpose. The idea is, do you have to work hard to specify the map from the microstates to the macrostates, or can you state it in a very short, compact expression? So you get direct emergence, like fluids from atoms, when the map is algorithmically simple.