I wouldn’t call my view “vintage Platonic idealism”, but maybe it is, I’m not a philosopher. I’m not saying that forms are more primitive or more metaphysically basic than matter, just that higher-level concepts are not derivable in any meaningful way from physical ones. Maybe that makes me an emergentist. But this philosophical labeling game is not very productive, I’ve found.
I wouldn’t call my view “vintage Platonic idealism”, but maybe it is, I’m not a philosopher. I’m not saying that forms are more primitive or more metaphysically basic than matter, just that higher-level concepts are not derivable in any meaningful way from physical ones. Maybe that makes me an emergentist. But this philosophical labeling game is not very productive, I’ve found.