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Ideas for 'Natural Kinds', 'Recent Work on Consciousness' and 'Introduction to 'Properties''

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15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 3. Privacy

7522	A full neural account of qualia will give new epistemic access to them, beyond private experience [Churchlands]

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

7521	It is question-begging to assume that qualia are totally simple, hence irreducible [Churchlands]

7523	The qualia Hard Problem is easy, in comparison with the co-ordination of mental states [Churchlands]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 7. Seeing Resemblance

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General terms depend on similarities among things [Quine]

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To learn yellow by observation, must we be told to look at the colour? [Quine]

8486	Standards of similarity are innate, and the spacing of qualities such as colours can be mapped [Quine]

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Similarity is just interchangeability in the cosmic machine [Quine]