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All the ideas for 'Unconscious Cerebral Initiative', 'fragments/reports' and 'Philosophy as a way of life'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 6. Hopes for Philosophy

9198	It is no longer possible to be a sage, but we can practice the exercise of wisdom [Hadot]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 2. Logos

9197	The logos represents a demand for universal rationality [Hadot]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being

12270

Being is one [Melissus, by Aristotle]

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

7861	Libet says the processes initiated in the cortex can still be consciously changed [Libet, by Papineau]

6660	Libet found conscious choice 0.2 secs before movement, well after unconscious 'readiness potential' [Libet, by Lowe]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / b. Types of pleasure

9196	The pleasure of existing is the only genuine pleasure [Hadot]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

3059	There is no real motion, only the appearance of it [Melissus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 1. Void

5100	The void is not required for change, because a plenum can alter in quality [Aristotle on Melissus]

27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 2. Eternal Universe

456	Nothing could come out of nothing [Melissus]