295 | Solo: Emergence and Layers of Reality

866.393 - 892.674 Sean Carroll

All you basically need to know is something about the center of mass of that little ball of paper that you have crumpled up. And maybe something about the environment that it's in, if it's windy or something like that. But relatively few pieces of information give you a very good handle on what's going to happen in the macroscopic world. That is emergence at work. It is one example of emergence.