Talk:Emergentism

message: From article: "More rigorously, a property P of composite object O is emergent if it is metaphysically possible for another object to lack property P even if that object is composed of parts with intrinsic properties identical to those in O and has those parts in an identical configuration."
Where does this come from? Sounds dubious to me as a definition of emergence. Makes it sound like the emergent level were a separate substance or something.
Jussi Hirvi 20.July 2005
Anyone familiar with Evolutionism is invited to check it out. I think it needs a rewrite badly. See the talk page.--Ben 03:28, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where does it come from? 

message: I think this definition completely mischaracterizes emergentism. I don't think anyone would say that O and P could be in the same configuration and still not have the same properties. That sounds downright nonsensical. The configuration is precisely what matters, from thermochemistry to consciousness.
The contrast with reductionism is not that reductionism claims that things are made of constituent parts, but that it tries to explain everything in terms of the parts rather than in terms of layerings of interactions upon interactions. Emergentism recognizes that the constituent parts cannot themselves explain the behavior of the whole without considerations of these different layers of interaction and configuration.
:: I agree; that line conflates scientific and theological/philosophical emergentism.  I'm going to take it out or move it. Tlogmer ( talk / contributions ) 05:57, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A very poor definition indeed. 

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message: How is it a testable theory, it seems more like philosophy. Can you quantify emergence, measure it, etc?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.237.101.65 (talk) 22:25, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This Article may be mostly philosophy, but neuroscience has indeed arrived at a certain type of emergence. Perhaps the Article could be rewritten to focus more on the neuroscience and less on the philosophy. The Mysterious El Willstro (talk) 07:34, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  is emergence science 

message: No, not if you believe in God. Here is an article on multiple realizability: . All a Theist would have to concede is that our very identities are multi-realizable via the mind of God. This means that even though the mind is dependent on body chemistry while you're alive, God can "copy" you to another (non-physical) medium at the moment of physical death. Strictly speaking this is a matter of identity, not mind per se, but it's still an argument for an afterlife, one that reconciles with the modern synthesis of neuroscience and therefore emergentism/non-reductive physicalism. 
Furthermore, that sentence was unsourced anyway. 
For both these reasons, I shall remove it. The Mysterious El Willstro (talk) 09:26, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "In particular, the dependence of an emergent mind on its base means there is no metaphysical possibility of life after death, in contrast with substance dualism." 

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message: Hello!  Which words have been flagged as weasel words?  204.136.186.135 (talk) 23:38, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
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