Sentences with phrase «metaphysically irreducible»

One common response to this view is that A.I. experts are particularly worried about learning machines, and that something about the complexity of these systems gives rise to emergent properties that are metaphysically irreducible to the sum of their parts.

There is a metaphysically irreducible contrast in human experience if it is always a compromise between pure order and chaos, between normativeness and the unmeasured, between unifying structure and the plurality of things to be unified.

In connection with the question of the evolutionary origins of man, the Church's teaching emphasizes that spirit and matter are not the same, that spirit can not be derived from matter, and that man, because spiritual, has a metaphysically irreducible position in the cosmos, so that his origin, as far as his spiritual nature is concerned, can not be found in matter.