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Description: In the scientific world, to what do the concepts and doctrines of emergence and reductionism refer? Why are they important? How do they affect the way that science is transacted? Emergence An Overview of Emergence and Reductionism Reductionism and Its Doctrines Emergence and Its Doctrines An Aristotelian Perspective Emergence: Epistemological and Ontological Beyond Biology: Emergence…
In the scientific world, to what do the concepts and doctrines of emergence and reductionism refer? Why are they important? How do they affect the way that science is transacted?
Emergence and reductionism are two scientific perspectives on causality that have a direct bearing on the themes of the bioperipatetic. A scientist’s concept of causality and its associated ontology determine how he will think about the nature of the phenomena of interest or relevance to his chosen field of science. Of special importance to the bioperipatetic are the sciences of biology and psychology and their respective top-level problems: the problem of life and the problem of consciousness (or mind).
These questionns immediately suggest the relevance of the now-famous book ‘Mind and Matter,’ by the theoretical physicist Erwin Schrödinger. The title of his book might fairly be rephrased as ‘Brain and Consciousness,’ since it is the concepts of consciousness and brain and not of mind and matter that Schrödinger addresses, especially in his first lecture entitled ‘Consciousness’. As a physicist, it is remarkable that the author arrived at the following hypothesis:
Maureen Thompson – Fine Artist – Classical Romantic Painting – Featuring Biographical Still Lives