Modal Argument: The Mind is Not the Brain

[Whateverist]

Are you claiming there is no such thing as an emergent property?

Not at all. I mentioned at least 4 different kinds of emergent properties in a previous post. None of them apply to the mind-body problem, although I am always willing to learn something new.

You accept that emergence is a real phenomenon within complex systems. Since the brain is one of the most complex things we know of, why would you not expect emergent properties to arise from it?

To my way of thinking, the more complex the system, the more likely, more common and perhaps, more inevitable, emergence becomes.

What really are emergent properties anyway? Aren't they simply properties which don't follow predictably from what we know of similar, but less complex phenomena? I may have to go read something on this. I'm not used to thinking about 'emergence'.