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Are We The Universe’s Way of Knowing Itself? With Brian Cox
StarTalk·Dec 9, 2025
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Everything that humans perceive as real is an emergent phenomenon arising from simple underlying laws.
“I suppose you could argue that everything that we understand and perceive as human beings is emergent, [music] right?”
StarTalk · Dec 2025 · 1 episode · 4.3M views on this topicDK
Emergence occurs when a new state of organization develops new, independent languages for description and prediction.
“The fact that you have two things, a new state of matter with properties that wouldn't really seem to apply at the individual particle level. and it has a new language, a new language of description and a new language of prediction. Those are the two hallmarks.”
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