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    Higher-level functions in human beings are ontologically ... — Carmelics
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    Higher-level functions in human beings are ontologically dependent on lower-level processes but are not reducible to them.

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    • 1.Human beings exhibit physical, biological, mental, and spiritual features that reflect the stratified structure of reality.
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    • 2.Ontological dependence of higher functions on lower processes is compatible with the autonomy and novelty of those higher functions.
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    • 3.Nonreductive naturalism acknowledges dependence without collapsing higher levels into lower ones.
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    • 1.Every purported 'emergent' property of higher levels has, historically, yielded to lower-level mechanistic explanation upon sufficient scientific progress.
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    • 2.The explanatory gap between levels reflects only current ignorance, not a genuine ontological discontinuity in nature.
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    • 3.If ontological irreducibility cannot be distinguished in principle from mere epistemic limitation, the claim collapses into a promissory mysterianism.
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    • 1.Kim's causal exclusion argument establishes that if lower-level physical processes are causally sufficient for any event, higher-level properties are causally redundant.
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    • 2.Ontological dependence without reducibility leaves higher-level properties epiphenomenal, unable to do genuine causal work in the world.
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    • 3.A stratified ontology that strips higher levels of causal efficacy cannot coherently explain why those levels matter at all.
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    Fischer has argued that Hartmann should be counted among the members of a “Cologne Constellation” of thinkers whose main project was the development of a philosophical anthropology that combined serious reflection on human being as a biological creature with the findings of the human sciences and humanities (Fischer 2012). Max Scheler, Helmuth Plessner (1892–1985), Hartmann, and later, Arnold Gehlen (1904–1976), are included in this group. They all shared the desire to bridge the dualism between
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