From the emergent property of consciousness to the emergence of the immaterial soul or mind’s substance
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies August 3, 2021 Ahmad Ebadi, Mohammadmahdi Amoosoltani
According to property-emergentism, consciousness is an emergent property of certain aggregate neurological constructions, whereas substance-emergentism maintains that the emergence of consciousness depends on the emergence of mental substance or soul. In this article, we presented some arguments supporting substance-emergentism by analysing various properties of consciousness, including the...