Single Idea 4083

[catalogued under 8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 7. Emergent Properties]

Full Idea

Whatever the causal process is, it remains true that if emergentism is true, the completeness of physics is false; there are some effects which would not have come about if mental things were absent from the world.

Clarification

'Emergent' properties are not a necessary consequence of their physical basis

Gist of Idea

If mental properties are emergent they add a new type of causation, and physics is not complete

Source

Tim Crane (Elements of Mind [2001], 2.18)

Book Reference

Crane,Tim: 'Elements of Mind' [OUP 2001], p.65


A Reaction

Emergentism looks to me like an incoherent concept, unless it is another word for dualism.