The Deeper Magic of Reality

Dear Living Dark reader,

Some time ago, I was reading an absorbing interview with Alan Lightman, the theoretical physicist and author, about his 2023 book The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science, when I came across this fascinating passage, where Lightman explains the concept of “emergent phenomena” and why the reductionist approach of physics and chemistry doesn’t work when such phenomena are in play:

This brings up the concept of “emergent phenomena.” In your recent PBS docume...