The historical and philosophical roots of emergentism in the neurosciences.
Journal of the history of the neurosciences January 1, 2024 Alan Baumeister
Physicalism, the view that mental phenomena are entirely describable in physical terms, has failed to account for aspects of mind like subjective experience. Emergentism, developed in the early 1920s, offers an alternative: higher-order phenomena such as life and mind arise from physical reality yet remain autonomous from it. This article traces the historical and philosophical development of emergentist ideas, especially their treatment in neuroscience.