16 ideas
9271 | Human knowledge may not produce well-being; the examined life may not be worth living [Gray] |
6375 | The taste of chocolate is a 'finer-grained' sensation than the taste of sweetness [Polger] |
9275 | Knowledge does not need minds or nervous systems; it is found in all living things [Gray] |
6381 | The mind and the self are one, and the mind-self is a biological phenomenon [Polger] |
9276 | The will hardly ever does anything; most of our life just happens to us [Gray] |
6378 | Teleological functions explain why a trait exists; causal-role functions say what it does [Polger] |
6380 | Identity theory says consciousness is an abstraction: a state, event, process or property [Polger] |
4867 | Whether nature is beautiful or orderly is entirely in relation to human imagination [Spinoza] |
9278 | Nowadays we identify the free life with the good life [Gray] |
6379 | A mummified heart has the teleological function of circulating blood [Polger] |
6377 | Teleological notions of function say what a thing is supposed to do [Polger] |
9280 | Over forty percent of the Earth's living tissue is human [Gray] |
4866 | God is a being with infinite attributes, each of them infinite or perfect [Spinoza] |
4868 | Trying to prove God's existence through miracles is proving the obscure by the more obscure [Spinoza] |
9272 | Without Christianity we lose the idea that human history has a meaning [Gray] |
9279 | What was our original sin, and how could Christ's suffering redeem it? [Gray] |