AMA | October 2024

3646.295 - 3672.041 Sean Carroll

And it has to do with whether or not you can make predictions about what happens in the world based on dramatically incomplete information. But the information you have refers to these higher-level emergent phenomena. When someone says, you know, we have 12 guests coming. How many chairs do we need? you don't need to know the microphysical state of the world to answer that question, right?