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I want now to turn to the question of how we should understand the status of conservatively emergent phenomena. This is important because, as I have argued, the natural understanding of both the structure of current physical science and its evident goals suggest that the only acceptable form of emergence will be conservative or epistemological.
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Seager, W. (2012). Generalized Epiphenomenalism. In: Natural Fabrications. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29599-7_8
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