Emergentism
Holds that new levels of reality are constantly evolving from matter, to life, to mind, to God. New realities such as mind are formed through evolution and cannot be reduced to lower levels. | ||||
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Emergentism
In philosophy, emergentism is the belief in emergence, particularly as it involves consciousness and the philosophy of mind, and as it contrasts with reductionism. A property of a system is said to be emergent if it is more than the sum of the properties of the system's parts.
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