Galen Strawson claims that the emergence of consciousness from the physical is an instance of 'brute emergence,' which he defines as emergence that is unintelligible in principle, even to God, because there is nothing about the physical, if understood as devoid of consciousness, that allows for the emergence of consciousness.

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• Person: Not available Organization: Cambridge University Press
  Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness

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• Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press via serper

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