If Non-water can Produce Water, Can Brains Produce Consiousness Response to @TJump

Kane B, Stephen M. Barr · Lecture · 7m· Nov 2022

Arjuna Gallagher answers TJump's claim that 'consciousness can't come from non-consciousness' is a composition fallacy by distinguishing weak from strong emergence: walls and water are fully explained by their causes (as physicist Stephen Barr's water-simulation example shows), whereas consciousness from brains would be a rabbit out of a hat unless consciousness is fundamental.

causality · consciousness · emergence · information theory · logical fallacies · materialism and physicalism · philosophy of mind · theism vs atheism


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