Worldview: Emergentism (EMERG)

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Extracted theses (commitments)

  • EMERG-1 (Metaphysics): Some higher-level properties have fundamental higher-level causal powers and are not exhaustively reducible to lower-level physics. E-035
  • EMERG-2 (Metaphysics): Emergence involves fundamental but lawlike novelty in observable physical patterns through time. E-036
  • EMERG-3 (Causality): Many emergence theses interact with (or deny) “causal closure of the physical”. E-037