Reality If we suppose that the things we see, hear, touch, etc. are real and not illusory, then we include ourselves and those other things in our conception of reality. Material things are real. Living things, the earth, water, air, other people – they’re all real. Those things move and we experience interaction with them in […]
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Transcendence and Emergence
We’ve talked about transcendence a lot, including especially here and here. It is a top-down understanding of phenomena we observe, or consider through rational thought, that can’t be explained purely as matter in motion. The utility of a chair; the beauty of a painting; the harmony of music, are all emergent properties of the movement of […]
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Here’s how not to be misled by the magical phrase “emergent properties,” in discussion of what constitutes all of reality. The Question First, remember the question at hand, when discussion of emergent properties comes up. The question is: what constitutes all of reality? Does it include only what we describe as “nature?” Or does it […]
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