19 ideas
23513 | Single neurons can carry out complex functions [Seth] |
23514 | The cerbellum has a huge number of neurons, but little involvement in consciousness [Seth] |
23516 | Maybe a system is conscious if the whole generates more information than its parts [Seth] |
7439 | The qualities involved in sensations are entirely intentional [Anscombe, by Armstrong] |
23519 | The self is embodied, perspectival, volitional, narrative and social [Seth, by PG] |
8353 | Freedom involves acting according to an idea [Anscombe] |
8352 | To believe in determinism, one must believe in a system which determines events [Anscombe] |
23518 | Modern AI is mostly machine-based pattern recognition [Seth] |
20041 | Intentional actions are those which are explained by giving the reason for so acting [Anscombe] |
23517 | Volition is felt as doing what you want, with possible alternatives, and a source from within [Seth] |
23515 | Human exceptionalism plagues biology, and most other human thinking [Seth] |
8070 | It would be better to point to failings of character, than to moral wrongness of actions [Anscombe] |
8065 | 'Ought' and 'right' are survivals from earlier ethics, and should be jettisoned [Anscombe] |
8069 | Between Aristotle and us, a Judaeo-Christian legal conception of ethics was developed [Anscombe] |
6005 | Animals are dangerous and nourishing, and can't form contracts of justice [Hermarchus, by Sedley] |
8351 | With diseases we easily trace a cause from an effect, but we cannot predict effects [Anscombe] |
4777 | The word 'cause' is an abstraction from a group of causal terms in a language (scrape, push..) [Anscombe] |
10363 | Causation is relative to how we describe the primary relata [Anscombe, by Schaffer,J] |
8350 | Since Mill causation has usually been explained by necessary and sufficient conditions [Anscombe] |