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Title: Bart Anderson
Natural Law, Emergence, and Complexity
One the most enduring problems in science is the problem of understanding
complexity in natural systems. What makes living systems alive? What
differentiates systems that exhibit “consciousness”, “mind”, or
“sentience”, from those that do not? Most contemporary theories and
practices within the biological and psychological sciences have pursed
reductionistic explanations of answers to these questions, or simply denied
the validity of such questions as having any scientific content.
Reductionistic explanations of biology and psychology are typically
grounded in a machine metaphor: biological systems are to be understood as
chemical “machines” (where biology becomes synonymous with “molecular
biology”); and mind can be understood as a computational “machine” (i.e.,
as an information processing device, where “mind” is synonymous with
“computation”). In this talk, I will argue that these views are
fundamentally inadequate for understanding the complexity of living
systems. Following the seminal of Rosen, I will argue that the machine
metaphor, and the Newtonian world-view on which it is based, fails to
capture the richness of the entailment relationships exhibited by
biological and psychological systems. My hope is that this brief talk,
and the discussion that follows, will inspire some continued interest in
pursuing these ideas, either individually or collectively.
When: Mon Jul 26 1pm – 2:30pm Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney
Where: University of Sydney, philosophy common room
Calendar: Current Projects
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