Re: Strong emergence is impossible
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2024 2:38 am
Now, if you are trying to show that 'the opposite scenario would lead to absurdity or contradiction, then providing a scenario that is Truly absurd and/or contradictory is not going to work. For obvious reasons.bahman wrote: ↑Fri Jul 26, 2024 4:53 pmNo. You need to read my argument again. My argument is a reductio ad absurdum argument.mickthinks wrote: ↑Fri Jul 26, 2024 4:07 pmGosh, you are making this hard work, bman! That looks like agreement with my contention but it isn’t really because of the word “emergent”.
I think you are taking your conclusion “consciousness isn’t emergent” as a premise and deriving “consciousness cannot be an emergent property” as a logical consequence.
your scenario is Truly absurd and contradictory "bahman".