Where in nature do we see life forms without a central nervous system 'processing information'? Do you regard a chemical reaction as a form of...
[IMG] Deliberations shake the nation's greatest. Here, Peter Miliband, Rt. Hon. Secretary for shoes and trainers ponders the implications and...
I asked Age Concern what I could to help with the problems of the aging population in this country, and they just told me to take some of them out...
This explains a lot. PS. It's spelt "barring"
That's really dangerous!
It's a well known example used by philosophers of mind to define the phenomenon of emergence. Establishing that some very clever people, who have...
I've been taking out pensioners with a high powered rifle.
Defining an "emergent property", which is pivotal to what the thread is about, and in direct answer to Raga_Mala. You can call it a resultant...
I did misspell "constituent". More seriously, is hydrogen wet? Is oxygen wet? Is a water molecule wet? Are two water molecules wet? Wetness is...
This is true of many things. For instance, wetness bears no relation to the consitutuent properties of water. Smelliness bears no relation to the...
Insights derived from periods when you have made yourself temporarily retarded by taking psychotropic drugs are not the most reliable findings.
Interesting thread, but your postulates are flawed. First postulate: the universe is "somewhat malleable". Indeed. Matter equates to energy,...
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One but it was the best one.
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I don't believe in fairy stories.
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