Full Idea
I claim that conscious experience arises from fine-grained functional organisation….. we might call it 'non-reductive functionalism'.
Gist of Idea
Does consciousness arise from fine-grained non-reductive functional organisation?
Source
David J.Chalmers (The Conscious Mind [1996], 3.7.1)
Book Reference
Chalmers,David J.: 'The Conscious Mind' [OUP 1997], p.248
A Reaction
This is Chalmers' final position. If consciousness is 'emergent' and cannot be reduced, what has fine-grained got to do with it? I take 'fine-grained' to be a hint at why the brain becomes conscious. Fine-grained functions cause something.