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Ideas for 'Physiologia', 'Writings from Late Notebooks' and 'Kinds of Minds'

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15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 1. Mind / b. Purpose of mind

7131	The intellect and senses are a simplifying apparatus [Nietzsche]

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 [Dennett, by Heil]

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

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]

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 [Dennett]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / d. Purpose of consciousness

7155	Consciousness exists to the extent that consciousness is useful [Nietzsche]

7143	Consciousness is a 'tool' - just as the stomach is a tool [Nietzsche]

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? [Dennett]