David Wallace
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Um
I don't believe in strong emergence.
I mean a belief is a weird thing to say.
I think the evidence for strong emergence is very weak.
I don't think I don't think it's conceptually incoherent, but I think we've got no reason to think it exists.
Um
There were intermediate things, you might imagine.
Um I had a paper on this from a few years ago.
Um
In a classical world at least, you might imagine that there were kind of regularities at the macro level.
that were consistent with microscopic physics but were
Nonetheless,
Not derivable.
from microscopic physics, in the sense that they came about because they were encoded in very delicate correlations in
the initial state of the universe.
That if if that were true, that would be a form of emergence that in some ways would be more like strong emergence than than weak, even though it wouldn't be in incompatibility with the laws of physics.
Um I don't understand that.
Can you explain that?
Yeah, sure.
Um so imagine I've got a classical world, yeah.
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