{"id":237763,"date":"2026-05-26T15:19:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/philosophy-talks-26-emergence-in-process-prof-mark-h-bickhard"},"modified":"2026-05-26T15:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:19:38","slug":"philosophy-talks-26-emergence-in-process-prof-mark-h-bickhard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/philosophy-talks-26-emergence-in-process-prof-mark-h-bickhard","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy Talks 26: Emergence in Process \u2014 Prof. Mark H. Bickhard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8ra8o9Qino8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Date of the talk: 13th November 2024<\/p>\n<p>Abstract:<br \/> Emergence can (potentially) integrate across otherwise dual metaphysics of basic substances or atoms on one hand and higher \u2018level\u2019 phenomena, including mental phenomena, on the other. But there are strong arguments against the possibility of emergence, such as from Jaegwon Kim. I will argue that such arguments against emergence assume a metaphysics of \u2018atoms\u2019 (particles); that that metaphysics is false; that an alternative is a metaphysics of process; and that process metaphysics makes the possibility of emergence coherent and ubiquitous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date of the talk: 13th November 2024 Abstract: Emergence can (potentially) integrate across otherwise dual metaphysics of basic substances or atoms on one hand and higher \u2018level\u2019 phenomena, including mental phenomena, on the other. But there are strong arguments against the possibility of emergence, such as from Jaegwon Kim. I will argue that such arguments [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}