18 ideas
3798 | An overexamined life is as bad as an unexamined one [Dennett] |
3801 | Rationality requires the assumption that things are either for better or worse [Dennett] |
16025 | If things change they become different - but then no one thing undergoes the change! [Gallois] |
16026 | 4D: time is space-like; a thing is its history; past and future are real; or things extend in time [Gallois] |
16027 | If two things are equal, each side involves a necessity, so the equality is necessary [Gallois] |
3802 | Why pronounce impossible what you cannot imagine? [Dennett] |
3296 | Sense-data are a false objectification of what is essentially subjective [Nagel] |
3795 | Causal theories require the "right" sort of link (usually unspecified) [Dennett] |
3295 | Inner v outer brings astonishment that we are a particular person [Nagel] |
3797 | I am the sum total of what I directly control [Dennett] |
3293 | If you assert that we have an ego, you can still ask if that future ego will be me [Nagel] |
3292 | The most difficult problem of free will is saying what the problem is [Nagel] |
3800 | You can be free even though force would have prevented you doing otherwise [Dennett, by PG] |
3803 | Can we conceive of a being with a will freer than our own? [Dennett] |
3791 | Awareness of thought is a step beyond awareness of the world [Dennett] |
3794 | Foreknowledge permits control [Dennett] |
3796 | The active self is a fiction created because we are ignorant of our motivations [Dennett] |
3294 | As far as possible we should become instruments to realise what is best from an eternal point of view [Nagel] |