AMA | October 2024

10686.702 - 10708.698 Sean Carroll

They can propagate, they can evolve, etc., in ways that are self-contained. The vocabulary doesn't exist, which is why I keep stumbling here. You don't want to say independent or autonomous because the higher level emergent variables are defined by the lower level variables. But you don't need to know about the lower level variables to understand what the emergent theory does. That's the idea.