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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Problem of Consciousness' and 'The Gathas (seventeen hymns)'

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7 ideas

17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 6. Mysterianism
7388 McGinn invites surrender, by saying it is hopeless trying to imagine conscious machines [Dennett on McGinn]
17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / b. Multiple realisability
3185 Multiple realisability rules out hidden essences and experts as the source of water- and gold-concepts [McGinn]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature
1748 Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]
27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution
5989 Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]
29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 1. Monotheistic Religion
7598 Zoroaster and the Hebrew prophets evolved different versions of monotheism [Zoroaster, by Armstrong,K]
29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 3. Zoroastrianism
20672 Zoroastrianism saw the world as a battle between good evil gods [Zoroaster, by Harari]
7472 Zarathustra was the first to present a god who is an abstract concept [Zoroaster]