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'Confessions', 'Emile: treatise on education' and 'The Rediscovery of the Mind'
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15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 4. Other Minds / c. Knowing other minds
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We don't have a "theory" that other people have minds [Searle]
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15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 4. Other Minds / d. Other minds by analogy
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Other minds are not inferred by analogy, but are our best explanation [Searle]
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15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 5. Unity of Mind
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We experience unity at an instant and across time [Searle]
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15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 6. Anti-Individualism
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Memory is so vast that I cannot recognise it as part of my mind [Augustine]
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15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / b. Essence of consciousness
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The mind experiences space, but it is not experienced as spatial [Searle]
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15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / d. Purpose of consciousness
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Conscious creatures seem able to discriminate better [Searle]
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15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 2. Unconscious Mind
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Unconscious thoughts are those capable of causing conscious ones [Searle]
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Consciousness results directly from brain processes, not from some intermediary like information [Searle]
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15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 4. Intentionality / a. Nature of intentionality
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Either there is intrinsic intentionality, or everything has it [Searle]
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Water flowing downhill can be described as if it had intentionality [Searle]
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Intentional phenomena only make sense within a background [Searle]
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15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 4. Intentionality / b. Intentionality theories
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Intentionality is defined in terms of representation [Searle]
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Consciousness is essential and basic to intentionality [Searle]
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15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 5. Qualia / b. Qualia and intentionality
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Pain is not intentional, because it does not represent anything beyond itself [Searle]
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