Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Saundaranandakavya', 'fragments/reports' and 'Being You'

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 2. Invocation to Philosophy

7910	Pursue truth with the urgency of someone whose clothes are on fire [Ashvaghosha]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity

490	Everything happens by reason and necessity [Leucippus]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 8. Brain

23513

Single neurons can carry out complex functions [Seth]

23514

The cerbellum has a huge number of neurons, but little involvement in consciousness [Seth]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / e. Cause of consciousness

23516

Maybe a system is conscious if the whole generates more information than its parts [Seth]

16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 2. Knowing the Self

23519

The self is embodied, perspectival, volitional, narrative and social [Seth, by PG]

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 6. Artificial Thought / a. Artificial Intelligence

23518

Modern AI is mostly machine-based pattern recognition [Seth]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act

23517

Volition is felt as doing what you want, with possible alternatives, and a source from within [Seth]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / d. Biological ethics

23515

Human exceptionalism plagues biology, and most other human thinking [Seth]

29. Religion / C. Spiritual Disciplines / 3. Buddhism

7909	The Eightfold Path concerns morality, wisdom, and tranquillity [Ashvaghosha]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / d. Heaven

7908	At the end of a saint, he is not located in space, but just ceases to be disturbed [Ashvaghosha]