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'Metaphysics', 'Writings from Late Notebooks' and 'From Supervenience to Superdupervenience'
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15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 1. Mind / b. Purpose of mind
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The intellect and senses are a simplifying apparatus [Nietzsche]
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15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 5. Unity of Mind
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With protoplasm ½+½=2, so the soul is not an indivisible monad [Nietzsche]
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Unity is not in the conscious 'I', but in the organism, which uses the self as a tool [Nietzsche]
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15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / d. Purpose of consciousness
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Consciousness exists to the extent that consciousness is useful [Nietzsche]
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Consciousness is a 'tool' - just as the stomach is a tool [Nietzsche]
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15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 5. Generalisation by mind
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Skill comes from a general assumption obtained from thinking about similar things [Aristotle]
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Aristotle distinguishes two different sorts of generality - kinds, and properties [Aristotle, by Frede,M]
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15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 6. Idealisation
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Science is more accurate when it is prior and simpler, especially without magnitude or movement [Aristotle]
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