Strong Emergentism as A Weak Post-Materialist Approach

Adrian Klein

  neurocentric | emergentist

Vol: 10; Iss:12 Dec 24 | ISSN: 2454-5422

The origination and setup of consciousness is still a most elusive topic in scientific research teams. Various hypotheses have been proposed reflecting different, sometimes contradicting philosophical solutions for this mystery across centuries of hot debates. During the last century of physicalist interpretations imposed by rapid advancements especially in physics, a corresponding materialist treatment has been imposed on consciousness studies, based on the axiomatic physical causal enclosure principle. With the progressively emerging post-materialist worldviews, an increasing number of attempts to find an alternative explanatory option to the reductionist neurocentric approach to consciousness studies seem to counteract the inertial brain-based functional and causal exploration tracks. Surprisingly enough, shifting away from its declared post materialistic avenue, the Galileo Commission’s recent trends seem to favor whenever possible physicalist views upon real, post-materialistic ones. The most promising compromise between these tendencies, amply discussed lately, seems to be hold in the emergentist concepts, trying by all means to preserve the axiomatic causal closure principle in physical domains. The author of this short essay feels that just one more step is urgently needed to overcome this conceptual conundrum, opening widely the way toward the novel paradigmatic orientation expected to solve the miserably stuck progress in an accurate understanding of sentient reality with its specific outstanding features that proved to be irreconcilable with old exploration tracks. This last and most revolutionary step might be achieved according to the author by simply reversing the strong emergentist theory of consciousness upside-down, realizing that the world of material observables, at all its scales of magnitude, is the emergent result for a highly complex interdimensional transaction between nonlocal guiding Information fields as translated into their effects in our 4D manifestation domain. None of the basic premises of the strong emergence theory is violated by this vector reversal, and a much more coherent and intelligible picture of the sentient reality such as it is may be highly rewarding. Inspired from recent sub-quantum physics and an objectively re-established aether theory, the brain/mind interconnectedness is depicted in an appealing new light.

Adrian Klein, Private researcher affiliated to: AAAS, PA, IQ, AAPS, ECAO, ISARTOP, DIJECA, Galileo Commission, Our Cosmic Society, Cunoașterea Științifică.