8 ideas
19404 | Necessities rest on contradiction, and contingencies on sufficient reason [Leibniz] |
16209 | How can point-duration slices of people have beliefs or desires? [Thomson] |
7658 | Obviously there can't be a functional anaylsis of qualia if they are defined by intrinsic properties [Dennett] |
7655 | The work done by the 'homunculus in the theatre' must be spread amongst non-conscious agencies [Dennett] |
7657 | Intelligent agents are composed of nested homunculi, of decreasing intelligence, ending in machines [Dennett] |
7656 | I don't deny consciousness; it just isn't what people think it is [Dennett] |
7654 | What matters about neuro-science is the discovery of the functional role of the chemistry [Dennett] |
19403 | Each of the infinite possible worlds has its own laws, and the individuals contain those laws [Leibniz] |