Subcorporeal Physics and Vertical Causation
Wolfgang Smith and John Taylor With the discovery of quantum mechanics in the early decades of the twentieth century, it seemed that physics had at last discove...
Vertical Causation
Irreducible Wholeness and Dembski’s Theorem
Wolfgang Smith We have become conditioned to think of wholeness in inherently set-theoretic terms, which is in effect to reduce the whole to a sum of parts. The...
Reflections on Top-Down Causation
John Taylor Editor’s Note: This is a revised version of the article—which includes footnote #26—republished 8 March 2021. Recently I penned an article...
Causal Emergence and Vertical Causation
John Taylor In reference to the then current scientific paradigm Nikola Tesla once said, “One can think deeply and be quite insane.” The spirit of this prof...