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Ideas for 'Logical Consequence', 'Consciousness Explained' 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

3463	We don't have a "theory" that other people have minds [Searle]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 4. Other Minds / d. Other minds by analogy

3457	Other minds are not inferred by analogy, but are our best explanation [Searle]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 5. Unity of Mind

3480	We experience unity at an instant and across time [Searle]

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

7393	We can't draw a clear line between conscious and unconscious [Dennett]

7367	Perhaps the brain doesn't 'fill in' gaps in consciousness if no one is looking. [Dennett]

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 / 1. Consciousness / e. Cause of consciousness

7394	Conscious events can only be explained in terms of unconscious events [Dennett]

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 / 3. Privacy

7391	We can know a lot of what it is like to be a bat, and nothing important is unknown [Dennett]

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 / b. Qualia and intentionality

4088	Pain is not intentional, because it does not represent anything beyond itself [Searle]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 5. Qualia / c. Explaining qualia

7387	"Qualia" can be replaced by complex dispositional brain states [Dennett]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 6. Inverted Qualia

7376	We can't assume that dispositions will remain normal when qualia have been inverted [Dennett]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 7. Blindsight

7372	In peripheral vision we see objects without their details, so blindsight is not that special [Dennett]

7373	Blindsight subjects glean very paltry information [Dennett]