295 | Solo: Emergence and Layers of Reality

5443.391 - 5468.337 Sean Carroll

that unless you give that explanation, you have not answered the question. You've not actually accounted for why that molecule is where it is without using these higher-level emergent ideas. To me, I think that's just a mistake. I think that's just wrong. I think that you can, in principle—not in practice, obviously—but in principle, you can perfectly account for the location of that molecule