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Emergence. As in when something becomes greater than the sum of it’s parts. Sapience. Life. Consciousness.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=16W7c0mb-rE

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UebSfjmQNvs

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Can you provide an academic paper? I think I understand the concept, but I fail to see it being meaningful with relation to the examples I posed of why the social sciences aren’t scientific.

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WhaaaaaaaaaaaAaaaaaaat? Lol.

Homie you’re overthinking emergence.

You cannot explain consciousness through the collision of atoms.

It’s literally something being bigger in human thought than the sum of it’s parts. That’s it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence

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Seems more like religion and blind belief to me. I agree that you can’t define consciousness in terms of particles… yet. But to say it’s impossible is a huge leap. High level biology is basically all physics and chem for this reason; it’s emergent from the 2 together. That doesn’t mean that you can’t define biological processes in terms of their chemical and physical activities though. It’s kind of like free will: we think we have it because we make ‘choices’ but at the end of the day our brain is just a series of particles, so where does the free will come from? Are we just deluding ourselves?

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