Emergence Explained, Russ Abbott
June 8, 2011
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I am a psychiatrist (psychopharmacology and psychotherapy) specializing in the so-called "personality disorders," particularly narcissistic and borderline personality disorders. I was a Fellow and then an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia from 2004- 2011, when I had an intellectual crisis-of-faith in which I stopped believing that neuroimaging could shed significant insight into the mystery of subjective experience. Since then I have focused on my clinical practice (at the Personality Studies Institute) and philosophical concerns.
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Written and Curated by Peter Freed, MD
I am a therapist, pharmacologist, and erstwhile functional neuroimager. My clinical work focuses on integrating medication with talk therapy to treat self-disorders. I want to build an empirical metaphysics with clinical teeth.
June 8, 2011 at 6:44 PM
Thanks for this. A knotty topic. The Brits seem more interested in this then in US. Have heard some great Brit lectures which were completely incomprehensible. Always fun.
June 8, 2011 at 7:54 PM
Thanks for the mention. Here’s my attempt to explain it to philosophers. “Abstract data types and constructive emergence” Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers. (http://www.apaonline.org/documents/publications/v09n2_Computers.pdf. Starts on p 48 of the newsletter.)
June 8, 2011 at 10:14 PM
Thanks for finding us! I’ll put it up now! Might you be interested in doing an online interview (by gchat or skype) about your ideas and their application to popular neuroscience?
June 15, 2011 at 12:08 PM
Russ: I didn’t see a reference to _Hierarchy Theory_(1973) by HH Pattee. It covers a good bit of this ground. I came across it as a reference from Jeff Hawkins’ Numenta project. It talks about the relationship of natural hierarchy organization to emergent properties.
http://www.isss.org/hierarchy.htm