2127 | The mind has parts, because we have inner conflicts [Plato] |
1737 | The soul seems to have an infinity of parts [Aristotle on Plato] |
1717 | If the soul is composed of many physical parts, it can't be a true unity [Aristotle] |
1721 | What unifies the soul would have to be a super-soul, which seems absurd [Aristotle] |
5145 | The rational and irrational parts of the soul are either truly separate, or merely described that way [Aristotle] |
21387 | The separate elements and capacities of a mind cannot be distinguished [Lucretius] |
5884 | How can one mind perceive so many dissimilar sensations? [Cicero] |
5887 | The soul has a single nature, so it cannot be divided, and hence it cannot perish [Cicero] |
5506 | If soul was like body, its parts would be separate, without communication [Plotinus] |
2302 | Faculties of the mind aren't parts, as one mind uses them [Descartes] |
21805 | Spinoza held that the mind is just a bundle of ideas [Spinoza, by Schmid] |
5045 | No machine or mere organised matter could have a unified self [Leibniz] |
1356 | A person is a unity, and doesn't come in degrees [Reid] |
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] |
7108 | The eternal truth of 2+2=4 is what gives unity to the mind which regularly thinks it [Sartre] |
5792 | Explanation of how we unify our mental stimuli into a single experience is the 'binding problem' [Searle] |
3480 | We experience unity at an instant and across time [Searle] |
2957 | Brain bisection suggests unity of mind isn't all-or-nothing [Nagel, by Lockwood] |
2426 | Why are minds homogeneous and brains fine-grained? [Chalmers] |
4924 | A conscious human being rapidly reunifies its mind after any damage to the brain [Edelman/Tononi] |