303 | AMA | February 2025

7196.629 - 7223.224 Sean Carroll

And the point is, in that world, when you have emergence at a level of, you know, there's a higher level where you've coarse-grained over a lot of individual details, and at the lower level there's deterministic microscopic dynamics, it will often be the case that the higher-level dynamics are stochastic, and the best possible thing you can do is make a prediction about probabilities, even though the lower-level dynamics are completely deterministic.