11 ideas
3269 | If your life is to be meaningful as part of some large thing, the large thing must be meaningful [Nagel] |
9198 | It is no longer possible to be a sage, but we can practice the exercise of wisdom [Hadot] |
9197 | The logos represents a demand for universal rationality [Hadot] |
3270 | Justifications come to an end when we want them to [Nagel] |
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] |
9196 | The pleasure of existing is the only genuine pleasure [Hadot] |
3268 | If a small brief life is absurd, then so is a long and large one [Nagel] |