David Wallace

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Yeah.

I mean this is a somewhat heuristic way to think about emergent ontology.

Um so

Ask yourself what you're saying if you say that there are, you know, macroscopic objects that are emergent from microscopic objects.

So like I'm and I'll I'll use a relatively m mundane internal to physics example rather than going off towards consciousness.

You know, I'm I'm sitting talking to you at the moment on my laptop.

Uh does my laptop exist?

Well it seems to be doesn't.

It's here.

I'm currently looking at it.

Um but there's also a whole bunch of atoms uh that comprise my laptop.

So what am I saying when I say that in addition to the atoms that comprise the laptop

There's a laptop.

Um and

There's a bunch of things that philosophers have said about that.

Um one thing people have said is

they'll bite the bullet and say, No, there isn't really a laptop.

That's a fancy way of talking, but it's not genuinely true.

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