ABSTRACT
This chapter concludes the book, saying that the ordinary person hardly needs convincing that our human behavior cannot be explained by what goes on with elementary particles or quantum fields. Academics are so needful because of the hold on them of a conception of causality as involving inviolable event regularities. This conception, going back to David Hume, homogenizes all causality into one flat formula: Events before are related to events after. With that formula, both the events before and the events after can always be described by reference to the most elementary particles there are. Of course, this conception does not explain why the laws are such or how and why things happen this way. To explain the how and why, we need to introduce causal mechanisms, and once we do that, causality becomes differentiated. If we further abandon the Humean notion of lawful event regularities, which we do not find anyway, then emergence emerges without mystery. The whole of the book was written to make this case. The ordinary person has no need of the extended argument, but academics do.
