Lexicon of Arguments

Philosophical and Scientific Issues in Dispute
 
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I 129
Emergence/Consciousness/Chalmers: it is sometimes asked why I do not assume that consciousness emerges from physical facts.
>Consciousness/Chalmers.
ChalmersVsEmergence: the well-known examples of emergence, e.g. Self-organization in biological systems or patterns in bird flocks are not analogous to consciousness.
>Self organisation.
Consciousness: should be emergent in a much stronger sense. E.g. Broad 1925 (1):
>Determinism, >Predictions, >Levels/order.
Emergence/Broad: According to his thesis, emergent properties are not even predictable from all known physical properties of a more basic level.
ChalmersVsBroad: this is a strong variant of the property dualism.
I 130
It would require additional fundamental laws.
>Property dualism, >Laws of nature, >Completeness.


1. C. D. Broad, Mind and Its Place in Natur, London 1925

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