David Wallace
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Weird, totally indescribable.
probability distribution over initial states, but it's meaningful.
It' not nothing nothing is nothing is flat out contradicted in the microscopic physics by claiming the distribution looks like that.
So that's what I mean about the fact that you could have macroscopic phenomena that are completely inexplicable.
microscopically without being flat out.
incompatible with it.
It's it's slightly more delicate to play this game in quantum mechanics and it requires a little bit of a broadening of the quantum formalism, but you can basically do it.
Um so that's a form there's some ways in which I think that kind of thing is more what the strong emergence people have in mind.
Because the thing about strong emergence in other senses is it can sometimes look as if it just flat out contradicts the microscopic laws of physics.
You know, the wave function collapses, for instance.
then that just flatly contradicts the Schrdinger equation.
So there are ways you could imagine having macroscopic physics that was compatible with the microscopic physics, but inexplicable for the microscopic physics, because effectively you coded everything into the most delicate boundary conditions you can imagine.
Um
I don't believe in that either.
I don't again, I don't think it's ki incoherent things that could happen, but I don't think there's any evidence for it.
There's lots of evidence against it.
Um I think we have a lot of evidence that our world is weakly emergent, which is to say lots of interesting novel stuff happens at higher levels.
Um uh and the kind of methodology we need to study things at higher levels is not extractable from lower-level methodology, but ultimately
Higher level regular autonomies are the playing out of phenomena.
Which bubble up from the low level.
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