Ideas from 'Kinds of Minds' by Daniel C. Dennett [1996], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Kinds of Minds' by Dennett,Daniel C. [Phoenix 1997,0-75380-043-8]].

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15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 1. Mind / e. Questions about mind

4608	Minds are hard-wired, or trial-and-error, or experimental, or full self-aware [Heil]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / a. Consciousness

4880	Sentience comes in grades from robotic to super-human; we only draw a line for moral reasons

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 5. Qualia / a. Nature of qualia

4873	What is it like to notice an uncomfortable position when you are asleep?

16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 6. Self as Higher Awareness

4881	Being a person must involve having second-order beliefs and desires (about beliefs and desires)

17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 6. Homuncular Functionalism

4875	We descend from robots, and our intentionality is composed of billions of crude intentional systems

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind

4879	There is no more anger in adrenaline than silliness in a bottle of whiskey

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 3. Eliminativism

4876	Maybe there is a minimum brain speed for supporting a mind

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / b. Multiple realisability

4878	The materials for a mind only matter because of speed, and a need for transducers and effectors

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 4. Language of Thought

4874	The predecessor and rival of the language of thought hypothesis is the picture theory of ideas

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 5. Concepts and Language / b. Concepts are linguistic

4882	Concepts are things we (unlike dogs) can think about, because we have language

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 3. Abortion

4872	Most people see an abortion differently if the foetus lacks a brain

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 2. Life

4877	Maybe plants are very slow (and sentient) animals, overlooked because we are faster?