Lexicon of Arguments

 

I 133 ff
Reduction/Searle: There are different types of reduction: a) property reduction: is nothing but average kinetic energy, b) theoretical reduction: is reduction between theories, e.g. recycling the gas laws to the laws of statistical thermodynamics, c) logical or ontological reduction: concerns laws of numbers on laws of quantities and...
I 135
...d) causal reduction, causal powers of an entity to causal forces of another phenomenon: is the vibration in molecular lattice instead of solid bodies.
I 136
Consciousness/Searle: even a perfect science of the brain would not lead to an ontological reduction of the kind that our contemporary science can provide for heat, firmness, color and sound.
I 137
SearleVsReductionism: that changes nothing for our scientific world view.
>Reductionism.
I 139f
From the irreducibility of consciousness arises nothing important.
>Consciousness/Searle.