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Single Idea 18513
[filed under theme 8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 7. Emergent Properties
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Full Idea
If you are going to have emergent fundamental properties, you are going to need emergent fundamental substances as bearers of those properties.
Gist of Idea
Emergent properties will need emergent substances to bear them
Source
John Heil (The Universe as We Find It [2012], 02.6)
Book Ref
Heil,John: 'The Universe as We Find It' [OUP 2012], p.29
A Reaction
Presumably the theory of emergent properties (which I take to be nonsense, in its hardcore form) says that the substance is unchanged, but the property is new. Or else the bundle gives collective birth to a new member. Search me.
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[new properties only found at higher levels of existence]:
3471
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Some properties depend on components, others on their relations
[Searle]
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3472
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Fully 'emergent' properties contradict our whole theory of causation
[Searle]
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2320
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Properties can have causal powers lacked by their constituents
[Kim]
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3291
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Emergent properties appear at high levels of complexity, but aren't explainable by the lower levels
[Nagel]
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3432
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Is weight a 'resultant' property of water, but transparency an 'emergent' property?
[Kim]
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3434
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Emergent properties are 'brute facts' (inexplicable), but still cause things
[Kim]
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2469
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The world is full of messy small things producing stable large-scale properties (e.g. mountains)
[Fodor]
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4083
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If mental properties are emergent they add a new type of causation, and physics is not complete
[Crane]
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4082
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The distinction between 'resultant' properties (weight) and 'emergent' properties is a bit vague
[Crane]
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4612
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Complex properties are just arrangements of simple properties; they do not "emerge" as separate
[Heil]
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4615
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Complex properties are not new properties, they are merely new combinations of properties
[Heil]
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18513
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Emergent properties will need emergent substances to bear them
[Heil]
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14302
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A lead molecule is not leaden, and macroscopic properties need not be microscopically present
[Mumford]
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14553
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Weak emergence is just unexpected, and strong emergence is beyond all deduction
[Mumford/Anjum]
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