A Non-Greedy Physicalism of Mind — Wisdom Never Dies
Non-greedy physicalism is at once appropriately reductive, non-epiphenomenal, and preserves ontic qualia without the need for strong emergence.
@seanmcarroll of all the work / papers mentioned in the podcast, I'm most excited to get to this one by Jessica Flack
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2016.0338"Coarse-graining as a downward causation mechanism"
#emergence #CoarseGraining #causation #DownwardCausation #supervenience Coarse-graining as a downward causation mechanism | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
Downward causation is the controversial idea that ‘higher’ levels of organization
can causally influence behaviour at ‘lower’ levels of organization. Here I propose
that we can gain traction on downward causation by being operational and examining
how ...
Mike Lensi