Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Sweet Dreams', 'Disputed questions about truth' and 'Remembrance of Things Past'

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8 ideas

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth
22104 Truth is the conformity of being to intellect [Aquinas]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / f. Primary being
22103 Being is basic to thought, and all other concepts are additions to being [Aquinas]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 5. Qualia / c. Explaining qualia
7658 Obviously there can't be a functional anaylsis of qualia if they are defined by intrinsic properties [Dennett]
16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 4. Denial of the Self
7655 The work done by the 'homunculus in the theatre' must be spread amongst non-conscious agencies [Dennett]
17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 2. Reduction of Mind
7657 Intelligent agents are composed of nested homunculi, of decreasing intelligence, ending in machines [Dennett]
17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 3. Eliminativism
7656 I don't deny consciousness; it just isn't what people think it is [Dennett]
18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 3. Modularity of Mind
7845 When we need to do something, we depute an inner servant to remind us of it [Proust]
18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 6. Artificial Thought / a. Artificial Intelligence
7654 What matters about neuro-science is the discovery of the functional role of the chemistry [Dennett]