21 ideas
9327 | Organisms understand their worlds better if they understand themselves [Gulick] |
9271 | Human knowledge may not produce well-being; the examined life may not be worth living [Gray] |
13007 | Archimedes defined a straight line as the shortest distance between two points [Archimedes, by Leibniz] |
9325 | In contrast with knowledge, the notion of understanding emphasizes practical engagement [Gulick] |
9326 | Knowing-that is a much richer kind of knowing-how [Gulick] |
9275 | Knowledge does not need minds or nervous systems; it is found in all living things [Gray] |
9319 | Is consciousness a type of self-awareness, or is being self-aware a way of being conscious? [Gulick] |
9320 | Higher-order theories divide over whether the higher level involves thought or perception [Gulick] |
9321 | Higher-order models reduce the problem of consciousness to intentionality [Gulick] |
9322 | Maybe qualia only exist at the lower level, and a higher-level is needed for what-it-is-like [Gulick] |
9276 | The will hardly ever does anything; most of our life just happens to us [Gray] |
9278 | Nowadays we identify the free life with the good life [Gray] |
9324 | From the teleopragmatic perspective, life is largely an informational process [Gulick] |
9280 | Over forty percent of the Earth's living tissue is human [Gray] |
23061 | Free atheism should start by questioning its faith in humanity [Gray] |
23057 | Gnosticism has a supreme creator God, giving way to a possibly hostile Demiurge [Gray] |
23056 | Judaism only became monotheistic around 550 BCE [Gray] |
9272 | Without Christianity we lose the idea that human history has a meaning [Gray] |
9279 | What was our original sin, and how could Christ's suffering redeem it? [Gray] |
23055 | Christians introduced the idea that a religion needs a creed [Gray] |
23058 | Buddhism has no divinity or souls, and the aim is to lose the illusion of a self [Gray] |