RE: Seeing red
January 26, 2016 at 8:25 pm
(This post was last modified: January 26, 2016 at 8:29 pm by bennyboy.)
(January 26, 2016 at 2:59 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: My position is that properties do not ‘emerge’ (appear from nowhere by magic) so much as ‘manifest’ (actualize what already exists in potency).
I like this idea. Mind, in particular, seems like a pretty strange property to "just happen" when a bunch of dead matter happens to get into a state of organization. The existence of mind surely means that the universe has embedded into it the capacity for experience. The brain, then, is not the accidental creator of mind, but is an expression of the universe's tendency to evolve structures to express that capacity.