RogerS comments on The real difference between Reductionism and Emergentism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RogerS 17 April 2013 10:08:59PM 0 points [-]

"As a theory of mind (which it is not always), emergentism differs from idealism, eliminative materialism, identity theories, neutral monism, panpsychism, and substance dualism, whilst being closely associated with property dualism. " (WP)

As a theory exclusively of the mind, I can see that emergentism has implications like property dualism, but not as a theory that treats the brain just as a very complex system with similar issues to other complex systems.