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Full Idea
In the case of millions of pixels making up a picture on a computer screen, the supervenience is reduction.
Clarification
'Supervenience' is the total mapping of one thing onto another
Gist of Idea
Where pixels make up a picture, supervenience is reduction
Source
David Lewis (Lewis: reduction of mind (on himself) [1994], p.414)
Book Ref
'A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind', ed/tr. Guttenplan,Samuel [Blackwell 1995], p.414
A Reaction
Since 'supervenience' seems a suspect relationship about which no one is clear, this is a point very much worth making.
| 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] |