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Trent Eady

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Climbing to Consciousness: The Mind-Body Problem and the Computational Order

May 29, 2015 Trent Eady

In his book The Structure of Behavior, the philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty proposes a solution to the mind-body problem. Merleau-Ponty argues that there is a nested hierarchy of three orders—the physical order, the biological order, and the mental order—in which each lower order composes each higher order. Through the structuration or organization of a lower order, a higher order is created....