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Emergentism is defined by the philosophical challenge of explaining how consciousness arises from matter, as noted in [1] and [2], and historical figures like C. Lloyd Morgan have grappled with this relationship between mind and matter within the framework of emergentist theory [3].
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Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu 2 facts
accountC. Lloyd Morgan, a radical emergentist, retreated into a Spinozistic parallelism of mind and matter due to concerns regarding the emergence of consciousness.
perspectivePanpsychism possesses a metaphysical advantage over emergentism because it avoids the difficulty of explaining how consciousness emerges from matter and the risk of making emergent features causally impotent or epiphenomenal.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimEmergentism faces the challenge of explaining how consciousness emerges from matter without rendering emergent features causally impotent or epiphenomenal.