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All the ideas for 'Letter to G.H. Schaller', 'What is it like to be a bat?' and 'Hymn to Perfect Wisdom'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 1. Nature of Wisdom

7911	Theory vanishes when one has obtained wisdom [Rahulabhadra]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / b. Essence of consciousness

3286	An organism is conscious if and only if there is something it is like to be that organism [Nagel]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will

4871	A thing is free if it acts only by the necessity of its own nature [Spinoza]

17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 7. Zombies

3288	Can we describe our experiences to zombies? [Nagel]

17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 6. Mysterianism

4883	Nagel's title creates an impenetrable mystery, by ignoring a bat's ways that may not be "like" anything [Dennett on Nagel]

3287	We can't be objective about experience [Nagel]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / d. Explanatory gap

4989	Physicalism should explain how subjective experience is possible, but not 'what it is like' [Kirk,R on Nagel]