tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post9123235272092976032..comments2024-03-26T14:20:38.103-04:00Comments on The Thought Criminal: Improbability Washes Away My Confidence In Random Chance As An Explanation Of LifeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-43921967436433598632018-09-20T16:04:53.144-04:002018-09-20T16:04:53.144-04:00The only thing I've really read about "em...The only thing I've really read about "emergence" is how it's used in materialist claims about consciousness and it's exactly that kind of "then a miracle occurs" only they don't call it that. The panpsychists which are fashionable or might be fashionable as an alternative to that claim that consciousness is present in non-living entities because they can't explain how, without consciousness being there, it could emerge in animals. I think they have to define "consciousness" in atoms and molecules in such a way that it's not what we experience, what gave the concept and the word its meaning, so it's just another way of saying the same thing. <br /><br />I think the most ridiculous of the ones I've read, people like the Churchlands are the ones who deny that consciousness exists but I don't think "emergence" or panpsychism is any kind of an actual advance on them. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-57242525374808541332018-09-20T15:57:34.364-04:002018-09-20T15:57:34.364-04:00I was watching a documentary on the game of Go, wh...I was watching a documentary on the game of Go, where an American scientist tried to explain the game and the concept of "emergence." He was connecting the game to the actions of the world, but It was clear the concept was of the "and then a miracle occurs" variety. In other words, create the conditions and life, or something equally complex and inexplicable, emerges. How? Because it does, because it has.<br /><br />It's not really an explanation of anything, but it makes some people feel "scientific."Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.com