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Full Idea
B-properties supervene naturally on A-properties if any two naturally possible situations with the same A-properties have the same B-properties.
Gist of Idea
Natural supervenience is when one set of properties is always accompanied by another set
Source
David J.Chalmers (The Conscious Mind [1996], 1.2.1)
Book Ref
Chalmers,David J.: 'The Conscious Mind' [OUP 1997], p.36
A Reaction
Since it is hard to imagine a healthy working brain failing to produce consciousness, given the current laws of nature, almost everyone (except extreme dualists) must concede that they are naturally supervenient. I wonder why they are.
| 3841 | Users of 'supervenience' blur its causal and constitutive meanings [Searle] |
| 2315 | Mereological supervenience says wholes are fixed by parts [Kim] |
| 3991 | Where pixels make up a picture, supervenience is reduction [Lewis] |
| 16052 | 'Superdupervenience' is supervenience that has a robustly materialistic explanation [Horgan,T] |
| 16053 | 'Global' supervenience is facts tracking varying physical facts in every possible world [Horgan,T] |
| 2393 | Logical supervenience is when one set of properties must be accompanied by another set [Chalmers] |
| 2394 | Natural supervenience is when one set of properties is always accompanied by another set [Chalmers] |
| 11055 | Supervenience can add covariation, upward dependence, and nomological connection [Hanna] |
| 16047 | Weak supervenience is in one world, strong supervenience in all possible worlds [Bennett,K] |