摘要：The author responds to criticisms from the four respondents to his “Emergence, Supervenience, and Personal
Knowledge,” acknowledging areas where their points have improved the interpretation of science and the
interpretation of Polanyi. The discussion focuses on the extent of the “causal decoupling” between parts and
emergent wholes, with special attention to the question of whether (and if so, to what degree) brain activity
causes thought.
关键词：emergence theory, reductionism, determinism, causal decoupling, mind-body problem,
Philip Rolnick, Martinez Hewlitt, Greg Peterson, Andy Sanders, Walter Gulick
