One suggestion for your analysis is to keep your focus on the concept of emergence.
As you state an emergent entity is not reducible to its constituent parts (perhaps something like a human brain consisting initially of only its physical/organic/biological parts without having yet absorbed any of the symbolic messages of the particular c…
One suggestion for your analysis is to keep your focus on the concept of emergence.
As you state an emergent entity is not reducible to its constituent parts (perhaps something like a human brain consisting initially of only its physical/organic/biological parts without having yet absorbed any of the symbolic messages of the particular culture of which it is inevitably a part and then incrementally becoming a human mind--not simply a brain but something more, with a life of its own.
In other words this human mind is an emergent phenomenon logically consistent with the biological and physical laws of the brain but also autonomous from it. Such a conceptualization helps to clarify the potential causal chains involved in the movement from individual brain to individual mind and individual mind to collective culture. (As Liah Greenfeld has argued in "Mind, Modernity and Madness"--mind is culture in the individual brain while culture can be imagined as "collective consciousness."
One suggestion for your analysis is to keep your focus on the concept of emergence.
As you state an emergent entity is not reducible to its constituent parts (perhaps something like a human brain consisting initially of only its physical/organic/biological parts without having yet absorbed any of the symbolic messages of the particular culture of which it is inevitably a part and then incrementally becoming a human mind--not simply a brain but something more, with a life of its own.
In other words this human mind is an emergent phenomenon logically consistent with the biological and physical laws of the brain but also autonomous from it. Such a conceptualization helps to clarify the potential causal chains involved in the movement from individual brain to individual mind and individual mind to collective culture. (As Liah Greenfeld has argued in "Mind, Modernity and Madness"--mind is culture in the individual brain while culture can be imagined as "collective consciousness."