“What we’re seeing is a manifestation of the layered nature of our descriptions of reality. At the deepest level we currently know about, the basic notions are things like “spacetime,” “quantum fields,” “equations of motion,” and “interactions.””

— Sean Carroll

No causes, whether material, formal, efficient, or final. But there are levels on top of that, where the vocabulary changes.

Chap. 3 : The World Moves by Itself
The Big Picture (2016)

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