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Stefan Anderson

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A Structural Dual‑Aspect Ontology of Biological Phenomenality and Teleological Direction - Holistic Emergence

PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) August 18, 2026 Stefan Anderson

Holistic Emergence presents a structural dual‑aspect ontology in which biological organization actualizes the internal, proto‑phenomenal potential inherent in physical structure. The model rejects reductive physicalism, universal panpsychism, and functionalist accounts of mind. Instead, it proposes that phenomenality is neither ubiquitous nor reducible but emerges holistically when a physical...

A Dual-Aspect Model of Subjectivity, Teleology, and Non-Libertarian Agency

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) August 16, 2026 Stefan Anderson

This paper outlines a dual-aspect model of subjectivity and agency that rejects the standard division between libertarian free will, compatibilism, and mechanistic determinism. Living beings instantiate a single underlying substance with two inseparable aspects—physical and phenomenal. Subjectivity is the phenomenal interior of life itself, not an epiphenomenon of physical processes nor an...