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Is the concept of emergence sufficient in blocking reductionism?

Practical emergentism, is compatible philosophically with reductionism. Reductionism must hit problems in ability to make predictions, based on the limits of total matter and energy in the universe an …
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Emergent consciousness

You would have to put SEVERE constraints on the freedoms of humans involved. Damage to the brain in the form of a tiny bloodclot in the form of a stroke, can cause catastrophic loss of function of a w …
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Could there be higher level emergent phenomena from more complex systems with properties dif...

It wouldn't involve subjectivity, but it would involve the emergence of various interacting systems to enhance stability, and perhaps to enhance self-organised criticality, a hallmark of systems that are … Surely there is likely to be some kind of shared collaborative enterprise, to shape the final distribution of matter, to benefit the emergence of more life an intelligence? …
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References for books/papers about emergentism and reductionism

A couple of discussions for a sense of us covering emergence as a topic on here: What are the alleged reasons for emergence? What's the "opposite" of emergence? Have you read Douglas Hofstadter? … It seems to offer an advance on understanding the emergence of life. …
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What are the missing pieces that prevents us from deriving the laws of chemistry from physics?

See these discussions: What's the "opposite" of emergence? Is the concept of emergence sufficient in blocking reductionism? What are the alleged reasons for emergence? …
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