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Ideas for 'works', 'The Modularity of Mind' and 'Mapping the Mind'

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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / a. Nature of emotions

4906	Babies show highly emotional brain events, but may well be unaware of them [Carter,R]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / g. Controlling emotions

4909	The only way we can control our emotions is by manipulating the outside world that influences them [Carter,R]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 5. Rationality / c. Animal rationality

4914	A frog will starve to death surrounded by dead flies [Carter,R]

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Aristotle and the Stoics denied rationality to animals, while Platonists affirmed it [Aristotle, by Sorabji]

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 3. Modularity of Mind

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Mental modules are specialised, automatic, and isolated [Fodor, by Okasha]