Context is King: Contextual Emergence in Network Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, and Psychology

Silberstein, Michael

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-92192-7_33

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“…Levy and Bechtel (2016) have suggested that mechanism existence and identity can shift over timemechanisms may pop into and out of existence, change their organizational properties, etc. The main danger with this dimension is that the dispute risks dissolving into a semantic one, with mechanists and emergentists both recognizing all of the same facts and simply employing different verbiage to describe them (Silberstein, 2022).…”

Section: Emergence Vs Mechanismmentioning

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“…In a contextsensitive system, Silberstein et al, argue, topological properties and multi-scale constraints determine how a system can behave in new contexts. As such, "Contextual constraints represent both the screening off and opening up of new areas of modal space, i.e., degrees of freedom, and thereby new patterns" (Silberstein, 2022).…”

Section: My Construal Of the Debatementioning

confidence: 99%

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Section: Emergence Vs Mechanismmentioning

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Section: My Construal Of the Debatementioning

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Evidence for Reductionist or Anti-Reductionist Approaches of Mental Processing

2024

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“…There should be sufficient interdisciplinary cross‐checking and synthesizing across adjacent levels of analysis to identify reciprocal constraints and convergent methods that help ensure that the theory for how elements at one level cohere is empirically capable of forming one of the elements at the level above (Abney, Dale, Yoshimi, Kello, Tylén, & Fusaroli, 2014; Atmanspacher & beim Graben, 2009; Noelle & Yoshimi, 2022; Silberstein, 2022; Spivey & Spevack, 2017). Essentially, those “puzzle pieces” in Fig.…”

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Cognitive Science Progresses Toward Interactive Frameworks

Spivey

2023

Topics in Cognitive Science

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Despite its many twists and turns, the arc of cognitive science generally bends toward progress, thanks to its interdisciplinary nature. By glancing at the last few decades of experimental and computational advances, it can be argued that-far from failing to converge on a shared set of conceptual assumptions-the field is indeed making steady consensual progress toward what can broadly be referred to as interactive frameworks. This inclination is apparent in the subfields of psycholinguistics, visual perception, embodied cognition, extended cognition, neural networks, dynamical systems theory, and more. This pictorial essay briefly documents this steady progress both from a bird's eye view and from the trenches. The conclusion is one of optimism that cognitive science is getting there, albeit slowly and arduously, like any good science should.

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“…Levy and Bechtel (2016) have suggested that mechanism existence and identity can shift over time – mechanisms may pop into and out of existence, change their organizational properties, etc. The main danger with this dimension is that the dispute risks dissolving into a semantic one, with mechanists and emergentists both recognizing all of the same facts and simply employing different verbiage to describe them ( Silberstein, 2022 ).…”

Section: Dimensions Of the Reduction And Emergence Debatementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In a context-sensitive system, Silberstein et al, argue, topological properties and multi-scale constraints determine how a system can behave in new contexts. As such, “Contextual constraints represent both the screening off and opening up of new areas of modal space, i.e., degrees of freedom, and thereby new patterns” ( Silberstein, 2022 ).…”

Section: Dimensions Of the Reduction And Emergence Debatementioning

confidence: 99%

Mechanistic decomposition and reduction in complex, context-sensitive systems

Burnston

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Standard arguments in philosophy of science infer from the complexity of biological and neural systems to the presence of emergence and failure of mechanistic/reductionist explanation for those systems. I argue against this kind of argument, specifically focusing on the notion of context-sensitivity. Context-sensitivity is standardly taken to be incompatible with reductionistic explanation, because it shows that larger-scale factors influence the functioning of lower-level parts. I argue that this argument can be overcome if there are mechanisms underlying those context-specific reorganizations. I argue that such mechanisms are frequently discovered in neuroscience.

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Context is King: Contextual Emergence in Network Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, and Psychology

Cited by 5 publications

References 157 publications

Evidence for Reductionist or Anti-Reductionist Approaches of Mental Processing

Evidence for Reductionist or Anti-Reductionist Approaches of Mental Processing

Cognitive Science Progresses Toward Interactive Frameworks

Mechanistic decomposition and reduction in complex, context-sensitive systems

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