> emergent properties can exist even in materialism
How would the material as such be aware of these properties?
I'm sincerely questioning here. The accusation of "smugness" up the thread seems a cop-out. The dirt needs to explain its awareness of its dirt-state.
Conversely, any theistic interpretation I could offer is going to have some hand-wavy aspects to it. I freely admit that there is no closed-form, mathematical expression for existence that falls within the scope of human intellect.
To the extent that I have a point, the rejection of the human mind as the measure of all things is my point.
How would the material as such be aware of these properties?
I'm sincerely questioning here. The accusation of "smugness" up the thread seems a cop-out. The dirt needs to explain its awareness of its dirt-state.
Conversely, any theistic interpretation I could offer is going to have some hand-wavy aspects to it. I freely admit that there is no closed-form, mathematical expression for existence that falls within the scope of human intellect.
To the extent that I have a point, the rejection of the human mind as the measure of all things is my point.