295 | Solo: Emergence and Layers of Reality

4922.209 - 4945.943 Sean Carroll

In other words, there's a set of terms that say, you know, in some region of space, I care about the particles bumping into me or whatever. I don't care about what happens far away. And then the filter function says, plus there are additional terms that do care about the global configuration. There are things that affect the dynamics of electrons. And again, I'm saying this hypothetically.