303 | AMA | February 2025

2238.225 - 2258.173 Sean Carroll

Like, they react to other individuals in certain ways, and you kind of could have predicted it. Maybe you didn't. but you could have. Just like in principle, if I knew everything about atomic physics and chemistry, I could predict liquids and solids and superconductivity and all those things, right? In practice, it might be very hard, but it's absolutely implicit in the underlying theory.