> But I would draw a distinction between the things that fundamentally change the way we understand the world, vs building really cool toys that we would love t

> But I would draw a distinction between the things that fundamentally change the way we understand the world, vs building really cool toys that we would love to have. It may very well be that understanding emergent phenomenon at the appropriate level of emergence will turn out to be vitally important, and that reductionism (while undoubtedly useful in many scenarios) is impeding our understanding of emergent phenomena like consciousness and evolution.