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Ideas for Charles Parsons, Thomas Nagel and Werner Heisenberg

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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 7. Emergent Properties

3291	Emergent properties appear at high levels of complexity, but aren't explainable by the lower levels [Nagel]
	Full Idea: The supposition that a diamond or organism should truly have emergent properties is that they appear at certain complex levels of organisation, but are not explainable (even in principle) in terms of any more fundamental properties of the system.
	From: Thomas Nagel (Panpsychism [1979], p.186)