La conciencia humana y el emergentismo
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En este ensayo se exploran los conceptos de conciencia y emergentismo, además de otros conceptos asociados al problema del origen y estatus metafísico y epistemológico de la conciencia humana. Se defiende la idea de que de ser viable la tesis del emergentismo como explicación del origen y características de la conciencia, esta tendría que ser un emergentismo fuerte a diferencia de otras alternativas. La teoría emergentista de D. Chalmers es analizada por ser una posición bastante discutida en el mundo académico actual y que representa una visión materialista y no reduccionista de la realidad de la conciencia.
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