Tag: emergence
An Intelligent Design Behind Consciousness — Or an Instinctive One?
Something immaterial can’t have an effect on the material realm, presumably, so how would it be selected as advantageous by Darwinian natural selection?
Thermodynamic Challenges to the Origin of Life
Spontaneous natural processes always tend toward states of greater entropy, lower energy, or both.
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?”