tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805190.post853023528295597000..comments2024-03-01T07:35:49.740-08:00Comments on Come Reason's Apologetics Notes: Thomas Nagel on Why Materialism Fails to Explain ReasonLenny Espositohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04064209669748618955noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805190.post-21015653732543589592013-03-28T13:53:49.886-07:002013-03-28T13:53:49.886-07:00Hi BernieDehler
What is "emergence"? T...Hi BernieDehler<br /><br />What is "emergence"? Think about it before you reply. <br /><br />Efforts to reduce human intellect to an emergent property of matter fail for the same reason that all materialist philosophy fails. An "emergent" property of matter is still a property of matter and subject to the same deterministic constraints as any other material property. <br /><br />"Emergence" when applied to human intellect is just another way of saying "miracle." Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17212728351727343071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805190.post-858074862085369282013-03-20T17:27:20.514-07:002013-03-20T17:27:20.514-07:00Ryan, of course you're right and that's a ...Ryan, of course you're right and that's a terrible typo. Sorry for the confusion.Lenny Espositohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04064209669748618955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805190.post-16571357133548218752013-03-20T14:38:53.988-07:002013-03-20T14:38:53.988-07:00I believe the scholar with which you're intera...I believe the scholar with which you're interacting is Thomas Nagel, not Thomas Nagle, the nineteenth-century Irish politician. RyanJRosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13047764928546880298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805190.post-64882460205470180522013-03-20T09:38:00.157-07:002013-03-20T09:38:00.157-07:00I failed to see your point in all of this. Maybe ...I failed to see your point in all of this. Maybe you should write a tidy conclusion how this in some way supports something about theism, your position. And by the way, the answer is in a profound scientific concept called "emergence." For more info, read this by Prof. Ursula Goodenough:<br />http://tinyurl.com/6wh97l4 . It is a better naturalistic explanation than "reductionism."Bernie Dehlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03919318328504104290noreply@blogger.com