303 | AMA | February 2025

10715.254 - 10735.406 Sean Carroll

How does this align with your notion of emergence, where different levels of reality and their descriptions must remain compatible? Does the poetic vocabulary of person B, in your view, fall short of the scientific one of person A in capturing reality, or is it equally valid? I don't think it's equally valid. I think they're both completely valid, right? But that doesn't mean equal, you know?