Andrej Drapal

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If consciousness is an emergent property, it is emergent in a much stronger sense. There is a stronger notion of emergence, used by the British emergentists (e.g., Broad [1925]), according to which emergent properties are not even predictable from the entire ensemble of low-level physical facts.
Andrej Drapal
Exactly. Emergence is emergence only if it is not supervenient to matter.
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (Philosophy of Mind)
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