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Emergentism
 * Emergentism would say that during the course of evolution, the higher-level of quality emerged from the lower level of existence and have its (material) roots therein, but it emerges there from, and it does not belong to that lower level, but constitutes its possessor a new order of existence with its special laws of behaviour.


 * The human brain is estimated to have ten thousand millions of neurons, and there are also thousands of synaptic relations among neurons. But, the qualities, which exist in consciousness, are not found in the neuronal relations. There is a new emergent entity in consciousness which did not exist in the neurons. Because, the emergent properties of consciousness are ontologically new. The problem of emergence in this context starts with ‘life’ and it should be remembered that ‘brain’ is not just a pice of inanimate matter, but a part of the ‘living’ body.

Philosophy of Mind
 * Higher-level properties notably consciousness and other mental properties, emerge when, and only when, an appropriate set of lower-level (basal conditions) are present, and this means that the occurrence of the higher properties is determined by, and dependent on, the instantiation of appropriate lower-level properties and relations. In spite of this, emergent properties are held to be ‘genuinely novel’ and characteristically irreducible to the lower level processes from which they emerge.


 * Emergentism would say that during the course of evolution, the higher-level of quality emerged from the lower level of existence and have its (material) roots therein, but it emerges there from, and it does not belong to that lower level, but constitutes its possessor a new order of existence with its special laws of behaviour.
 * The human brain is estimated to have ten thousand millions of neurons, and there are also thousands of synaptic relations among neurons. But, the qualities, which exist in consciousness, are not found in the neuronal relations. There is a new emergent entity in consciousness which did not exist in the neurons. Because, the emergent properties of consciousness are ontologically new. The problem of emergence in this context starts with ‘life’ and it should be remembered that ‘brain’ is not just a pice of inanimate matter, but a part of the ‘living’ body.

Higher-level properties notably consciousness and other mental properties, emerge when, and only when, an appropriate set of lower-level (basal conditions) are present, and this means that the occurrence of the higher properties is determined by, and dependent on, the instantiation of appropriate lower-level properties and relations. In spite of this, emergent properties are held to be ‘genuinely novel’ and characteristically irreducible to the lower level processes from which they emerge.