Jessica M. Wilson, "Metaphysical Emergence" (Oxford UP, 2021)
New Books in Systems and Cybernetics
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Is There a Leveled Structure?
There's a sense to be made of natural reality is having a kind of leveled structure. So these things really exist trees, you know, they exist in not just as some kind of logical combination of lower level micro configurations but they exist in their own right. Those people who identify as metaphysical emergent or who want to try to make sense of it like myself are trying to take these appearances of leveled structure with realistic face value. That doesn't necessarily involve any supernatural or non-physical substance elements.
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