On Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 10:07:18 PM UTC-5, myriadsma...@yahoo.com wrote:   
   > On Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 10:04:37 PM UTC-5, myriadsma...@yahoo.com   
   wrote:   
   > > On Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 9:56:13 PM UTC-5, Eric Vinyard wrote:   
   > > > On Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 10:49:17 PM UTC-4, myriadsma...@yahoo.com   
   wrote:   
   > > > > On Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 9:47:16 PM UTC-5, Eric Vinyard wrote:   
   > > > > > On Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 3:57:28 PM UTC-4, litewave wrote:   
   > > > > > > I wrote a paper where I suggested that the whole reality is based   
   on the principle of logical consistency.   
   > > > > >    
   > > > > > That's a better way of putting it than what Ant is suggesting -   
   which is really just a paper thin disguise for the old Christian addage that   
   "God works in mysterious ways" and we should all just trust things that don't   
   make sense... because God.   
    And stuff.   
   > > > > >    
   > > > > > It is through logic that we uncover the consistency of reality.   
   > > > >    
   > > > > We murder to dissect.   
   > > >    
   > > > Heh. Maybe we'll have to destroy the universe to finally understand it.   
   > >    
   > > Wordsworth's response to the vitalist/mechanist debate.   
   >    
   > Sometimes called emergentism.   
      
   "In philosophy, emergentism is the belief in emergence, particularly as it   
   involves consciousness and the philosophy of mind, and as it contrasts (or   
   not) with reductionism. A property of a system is said to be emergent if it is   
   a new outcome of some    
   other properties of the system and their interaction, while it is itself   
   different from them.[1] Emergent properties are not identical with, reducible   
   to, or deducible from the other properties. The different ways in which this   
   independence requirement    
   can be satisfied lead to variant types of emergence."   
      
   Emergentism is one of those isms that isn't exactly an ism.   
      
   More at the link...   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergentism   
      
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