Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Francois-Marie Voltaire, John Searle and Barbara Vetter

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15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / a. Consciousness
5794 Consciousness has a first-person ontology, which only exists from a subjective viewpoint [Searle]
5795 There isn't one consciousness (information-processing) which can be investigated, and another (phenomenal) which can't [Searle]
5786 A system is either conscious or it isn't, though the intensity varies a lot [Searle]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / b. Essence of consciousness
3479 The mind experiences space, but it is not experienced as spatial [Searle]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / d. Purpose of consciousness
3470 Conscious creatures seem able to discriminate better [Searle]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 2. Unconscious Mind
3486 Unconscious thoughts are those capable of causing conscious ones [Searle]
3503 Consciousness results directly from brain processes, not from some intermediary like information [Searle]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 4. Intentionality / a. Nature of intentionality
3465 Either there is intrinsic intentionality, or everything has it [Searle]
3484 Water flowing downhill can be described as if it had intentionality [Searle]
3489 Intentional phenomena only make sense within a background [Searle]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 4. Intentionality / b. Intentionality theories
3494 Intentionality is defined in terms of representation [Searle]
3481 Consciousness is essential and basic to intentionality [Searle]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 5. Qualia / a. Nature of qualia
5788 The use of 'qualia' seems to imply that consciousness and qualia are separate [Searle]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 5. Qualia / b. Qualia and intentionality
4088 Pain is not intentional, because it does not represent anything beyond itself [Searle]