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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 · 4.0M views on this topicEmergence 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.”
StarTalk · Aug 2025 · 1 episode · 1.1M views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.