Interaction in Emergent Human Systems

Several contributors to the collected volume, Interactive World, Interactive God, by Carol Albright, et al., examine emergence as a type of interaction from scientific and theological perspectives. In reviewing, two extensions are proposed. Systems theory can organize those investigations, and the p...

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Published in:Theology and science 2023-04, Vol.21 (2), p.331-339
Main Author: Graves, Mark
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Philosophy
Pragmatic philosophy
Science
Semiotics
Soul
Spirituality
strong emergence
System theory
systems theory
theological anthropology
Theology
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Summary:Several contributors to the collected volume, Interactive World, Interactive God, by Carol Albright, et al., examine emergence as a type of interaction from scientific and theological perspectives. In reviewing, two extensions are proposed. Systems theory can organize those investigations, and the phenomena they study, into a multilevel architecture built upon distinctions between weak emergence (as explaining and constraining) and strong emergence (as introducing new types of causation). Pragmatic philosophy (and semiotics) can further nuance the investigation of the human mind into behaviors, language, and abstract ideas to clarify characterizations of self and soul with respect to symbolic language and spirituality.
ISSN:1474-6700
1474-6719
DOI:10.1080/14746700.2023.2188377