16 ideas
22115 | Wise people should contemplate and discuss the truth, and fight against falsehood [Aquinas] |
3622 | The Cogito is not a syllogism but a self-evident intuition [Descartes] |
4608 | Minds are hard-wired, or trial-and-error, or experimental, or full self-aware [Dennett, by Heil] |
4880 | Sentience comes in grades from robotic to super-human; we only draw a line for moral reasons [Dennett] |
4873 | What is it like to notice an uncomfortable position when you are asleep? [Dennett] |
4881 | Being a person must involve having second-order beliefs and desires (about beliefs and desires) [Dennett] |
20700 | Without God's influence every operation would stop, so God causes everything [Aquinas] |
4875 | We descend from robots, and our intentionality is composed of billions of crude intentional systems [Dennett] |
4879 | There is no more anger in adrenaline than silliness in a bottle of whiskey [Dennett] |
4876 | Maybe there is a minimum brain speed for supporting a mind [Dennett] |
4878 | The materials for a mind only matter because of speed, and a need for transducers and effectors [Dennett] |
4874 | The predecessor and rival of the language of thought hypothesis is the picture theory of ideas [Dennett] |
4882 | Concepts are things we (unlike dogs) can think about, because we have language [Dennett] |
4872 | Most people see an abortion differently if the foetus lacks a brain [Dennett] |
15202 | Eternity coexists with passing time, as the centre of a circle coexists with its circumference [Aquinas] |
4877 | Maybe plants are very slow (and sentient) animals, overlooked because we are faster? [Dennett] |