>>12250706No. Dr. John Searle explains:
"if you consider uncontroversial properties of the brain, like weight, shape, colour, solidity, etc., nobody says that these ‘arise from’ or are ‘over and above’ the brain; and only in a special sense can some of them be described as ‘emergent’ (cf. Searle, 1992, pp. 111–12), and certainly not as ‘emergent from’ the brain. The official claim is that consciousness is a property, not a thing, object or substance. But that claim is inconsistent with the conception of consciousness as something that is ‘over and above’, that the brain ‘gives rise to.’"
Source: Searle, John R. (2002). Why I am not a property dualist. Journal of Consciousness Studies 9 (12):57-64.
