Ypan1944

Phenomenological means in my opinion that phenomenons are directly observable (possibly with the help of equipment). Fundamental reveals that there ar...

Please look at Mariusz Tabaczek overview article about The Metaphysics of Downward Causation: Rediscovering The Formal Cause "Jaegwon Kim notices that...

It's amazing how you can misinterpret my definition! After all, the only correct slogan that you can connect with my definition is: “there cannot be a...

Sorry if you misunderstood my post, but I really meant that my definition has the same meaning as Wikipedia 's definition. I am absolutely not reversi...

I am not a supporter of the "Theory of everything" because such a theory can never predict the occurrence of (strong) emergent phenomena. Only some si...

I didn't realize the difference between "emergent" and "emergency" because I am not a native speaker. I am not convinced about the "radical causal bre...

I am not a "holist" : holism denies reductionism and I don't do that. Nevertheless despite the deterministic physical laws who are not linear but expo...

Sorry, but look at Wikipedia for this definition: "In philosophy, supervenience refers to a relation between sets of properties or sets of facts. X is...

Thanks for your link to Terrence Deacon.

I think there is a lot of confusion about definition and features of (weak/strong) emergency. I am a physicalist, so a belief that all phenomena (even...

My goals are: * Explain the difference between weak and strong emergency * Explain the difference between "downward causation" and "supervenience" * S...

In my opinion this is certainly a case of supervenience. But supervenience can both exist in weak and strong emergency.

I should say that pH is a physical feature of the ion-concentration of a solution. Chemics - in my opinion - is more about the characteristics of a re...

Again: "supervenience" has nothing to do (in my opinion) with "downward causation" Supervenience is upward causation, not downward. To be strong emerg...

For a good summary of the aforementioned problems, see: the article of Mariusz Tabaczek

Of course: nuclear reactions have emergent aspects by themselves, but you should distinguish these from emergent chemical features. You can of course ...

Yes, you are right, but the chemical features of "heavy water" are exactly the same as "normal" water. The features you mentioned are just physical, n...

I think just the opposite is true: strong emergency and supervenience are strongly connected. With weak emergency supervenience sometimes happens (lik...

Nuclear reactions have nothing to do with the features of an atom or molecule. For reactions between atoms or molecules, only the "outside" of an atom...

The same problem arises if you consider the behavior of a bee or ant colony as strong or weak? emergent. Are those bees really independent of each oth...

I don't agree with you. The features of an atom are totally dependent on the electron configuration of the atom, which you can describe with quantumme...

To argue that our consciousness is highly emergent you must show that the features of our consciousness are supervenient over the underlying complex s...

I would say: try to design a crucial test (which should be more sophisticated as the Turing Test) to decide which is conscience and which is not.

I am happy with your interesting comments. But one aspect remains underexposed so far. A system like our brain has many components (neurons). A charac...

Do you agree that performing algorithmic actions are unconscious? (that is : automatically, without thinking). Then the difference with conscious acti...

I am interested in the transition from unconscious algorithmic thinking to conscious thinking. How does consciousness emerge from a algorithmic basis?