Emergence and experience: systemic emergence and the prospects for a mechanistic explanation of the existence of experience
Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) 2017 Andrew Kenneth McKilliam
The dominant view among philosophers and scientists today is that the world, and everything in it, is constructed from a relatively small set of fundamental entities: roughly those picked out by physics. This view is known as materialism. Materialism is not the view that only these fundamentals exist. The world contains many wondrous things that are not themselves fundamental physical entities:...