295 | Solo: Emergence and Layers of Reality

5645.828 - 5671.582 Sean Carroll

But in actual type 3 emergence, we allow for the existence of truly new ontological entities that are strictly global. Maybe you think that way about consciousness. Maybe consciousness is just not ever reducible, even in principle, to the to-ings and fro-ings of microscopic particles. Maybe there's something extra about it, consciousness juice or something, the spirit, the soul, the geist.