The article discusses Extended Naturalism (EN), a novel approach to understanding consciousness presented at the World Science Festival. Unlike traditional categories like materialism or dualism, EN combines ideas from reductionism and emergence to map human consciousness within a robust naturalistic ontology. It introduces an 'Energy-Information Implicate Order' with emergent planes such as Matter, Life, Mind, and Culture. The authors assert that this framework provides a more coherent and comprehensive understanding of both the natural world and human consciousness, transcending existing philosophical boundaries.
EN offers a fresh perspective by providing a more extended view of both the natural world and a more extended conception of human consciousness in a larger philosophical framework.
Grounded in a clear model of emergence, EN connects layers in nature mapped by science, refining the discourse from the classic 'physical vs. mental' divide.
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