To respond to a really old comment -
Emergence does exclude some possibilities. For example, if consciousness is emergent, it means that it’s not ontologically basic, it’s not caused by something outside the system, and that it exists.
I could that if your epistemology is popperian, negative evidence is all you can have.
To respond to a really old comment -
Emergence does exclude some possibilities. For example, if consciousness is emergent, it means that it’s not ontologically basic, it’s not caused by something outside the system, and that it exists.
I could that if your epistemology is popperian, negative evidence is all you can have.