ABSTRACT

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.

摘要

Carol Albright 等人撰写的合集《Interactive World, Interactive God》的几位撰稿人从科学和神学的角度将涌现视为一种互动。在审查中，提出了两项​​延期。系统理论可以将这些调查和他们研究的现象组织成一个多层次的体系结构，该体系结构建立在弱涌现（作为解释和约束）和强涌现（作为引入新类型的因果关系）之间的区别之上。实用主义哲学（和符号学）可以进一步细化人类思维对行为、语言和抽象思想的研究，以阐明自我和灵魂在符号语言和灵性方面的特征。