Tag: emergence
Back-to-Back, Failed Visions of the “Brain as a Supercomputer”
Douglas Hofstadter argued in much the same vein as Henry Markham, that the brain can be understand in rules-bound machine terms.
“Emergence” and the Soul
Emergence, as a perceptual surprise, can’t explain the mind because emergence presupposes the mind.
Bruce Buff and Robert Spitzer on All Hallows’ Eve — Materialism as Reality-Denial
“Is the soul real? Or is it just an old construct used to explain what a scientifically illiterate society could not?”