295 | Solo: Emergence and Layers of Reality

4018.863 - 4045.994 Sean Carroll

And the only way to specify it that I know is to just give the explicit formula in an incompressible map from microstates to macrostates. So to me, that idea of whether or not the map from the micro theory to the macro theory is algorithmically simple or complex is a better thing to keep in mind than whether or not the macroscopic behavior is surprising or novel or unexpected or whatever.