RE: Supervenience, Transcendence, and Mind
September 8, 2014 at 7:42 pm
(This post was last modified: September 8, 2014 at 7:56 pm by bennyboy.)
Trans = across, beyond
Scend = climb
My point is that supervened properties have a reality unique to the mechanism on which they supervene, i.e. they go beyond those mechanisms. I couldn't think of a more perfect word to express my idea.
So here's my point, and it regards mind. If mind can supervene on multiple mechanisms, then I'd say that mind is in fact the more fundamental reality, and that it "piggybacks" on a mechanism, rather than being created by it. Just as a wave is not created by water, but by the forces acting on the water, I'd argue mind is not really created by the brain, but more properly by the evolutionary forces acting on a species.
That's IF mind actually can supervene on other things, like complex enough computers.
Scend = climb
My point is that supervened properties have a reality unique to the mechanism on which they supervene, i.e. they go beyond those mechanisms. I couldn't think of a more perfect word to express my idea.
So here's my point, and it regards mind. If mind can supervene on multiple mechanisms, then I'd say that mind is in fact the more fundamental reality, and that it "piggybacks" on a mechanism, rather than being created by it. Just as a wave is not created by water, but by the forces acting on the water, I'd argue mind is not really created by the brain, but more properly by the evolutionary forces acting on a species.
That's IF mind actually can supervene on other things, like complex enough computers.
