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James F. Salmon
Analysis of the long career of the concept of matter must take into account the shift from static to evolutionary interpretations of nature. Application of Ariotatle's description of abstraction permits one to situate the concept of matter in the writings of Teilhard de Chardin within that shift. His observations as a scientist showed him that matter has the property to self-organize, and that consciousness grows in systems of increasing complexity. Analysis of modern concepts of emergence and top-down causation indicate that Teilhard's insight, founded an o concept of matter as spirit-matter and a low of complexity-consciousness is compatible with modern understanding of the evolutionary process
