Contextual emergence of mental states.
Harald Atmanspacher
Cognitive Processing November 2015 DOI: 10.1007/s10339-015-0658-0 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Philosophy of mind |
| Keywords | Bridge laws Coarse graining Cognitive neuroscience Emergence Interlevel relations Mechanics Mental causation Philosophy of science Reduction Symbolic dynamics Thermodynamics |
| Key points | Proposes that contextual emergence offers a non-reductive but formally sound and empirically applicable way to relate different levels of description, and argues that it can account for the emergence of mental states from a neural level. |
Abstract
The concept of contextual emergence has been proposed as a non-reductive, yet well-defined relation between different levels of description of physical and other systems. It yields a formally sound and empirically applicable procedure to translate between descriptive levels in an overall consistent fashion. This will be discussed for the contextual emergence of mental states from a neural level of description.
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