295 | Solo: Emergence and Layers of Reality

5421.101 - 5442.771 Sean Carroll

And people will say, well, if you realize that what you're actually talking about is a little hydrocarbon molecule in a gas tank of a car, then you can give an explanation for why that molecule is there based on ideas of the internal combustion engine and the modern economy and the need to get from place to place in a suburban environment or whatever. And they would go so far as to claim –