Timeline for Can emergent substance dualism account for why creatures have consciousness without invoking a divinity giving it to them?
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| Oct 17, 2018 at 21:44 | comment | added | Conifold | Why not? "Thinking substance" emerging at some level of complexity in the organization of matter can just be one of matter's properties, a law of nature. Although it seems more natural with property dualism. | |
| Oct 17, 2018 at 21:43 | comment | added | guest1806 | My answer would depend on a wrinkle: one might not need to invoke a deity for a theory of emergence (dualist or otherwise), but one might need to make assumptions that would ruin the counter-arguments to an ontological proof of God's existence. — (To put it in really stupid terms: your theory of emergence might take no stance on whether emergence involves divine action or not, yet still ruin an argument that says "The God you describe doesn't do anything" because now the theist can point to emergence as a possible example of activity.) | |
| Oct 17, 2018 at 20:29 | answer | added | Dcleve | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 17, 2018 at 18:16 | history | asked | Noah | CC BY-SA 4.0 |