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Ideas for Novalis, Oswald Veblen and Friedrich Nietzsche

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15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 1. Mind / b. Purpose of mind
7131 The intellect and senses are a simplifying apparatus [Nietzsche]
23184 The mind is a simplifying apparatus [Nietzsche]
15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 5. Unity of Mind
24090 Our inclinations would not conflict if we were a unity; we imagine unity for our multiplicity [Nietzsche]
7152 With protoplasm ½+½=2, so the soul is not an indivisible monad [Nietzsche]
7130 Unity is not in the conscious 'I', but in the organism, which uses the self as a tool [Nietzsche]
4536 It is a major blunder to think of consciousness as a unity, and hence as an entity, a thing [Nietzsche]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / d. Purpose of consciousness
20115 All of our normal mental life could be conducted without consciousness [Nietzsche]
20117 Only the need for communication has led to consciousness developing [Nietzsche]
7155 Consciousness exists to the extent that consciousness is useful [Nietzsche]
7143 Consciousness is a 'tool' - just as the stomach is a tool [Nietzsche]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / e. Cause of consciousness
20118 Only our conscious thought is verbal, and this shows the origin of consciousness [Nietzsche]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / f. Higher-order thought
23190 Consciousness is our awareness of our own mental life [Nietzsche]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 2. Unconscious Mind
20116 Most of our lives, even the important parts, take place outside of consciousness [Nietzsche]
20120 Whatever moves into consciousness becomes thereby much more superficial [Nietzsche]
15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 1. Faculties
14868 Our primary faculty is perception of structure, as when looking in a mirror [Nietzsche]
24145 Mind is a mechanism of abstraction and simplification, aimed at control [Nietzsche]
23191 Minds have an excluding drive to scare things off, and a selecting one to filter facts [Nietzsche]
15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 3. Abstraction by mind
20363 Leaves are unequal, but we form the concept 'leaf' by discarding their individual differences [Nietzsche]
15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 5. Generalisation by mind
18310 The 'highest' concepts are the most general and empty concepts [Nietzsche]
15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 6. Idealisation
19591 Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis]
15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 9. Perceiving Causation
14870 We experience causation between willing and acting, and thereby explain conjunctions of changes [Nietzsche]
15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 10. Conatus/Striving
20131 We can cultivate our drives, of anger, pity, curiosity, vanity, like a gardener, with good or bad taste [Nietzsche]
20355 The ranking of a person's innermost drives reveals their true nature [Nietzsche]
23213 The greatest drive of life is to discharge strength, rather than preservation [Nietzsche]