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All the ideas for 'Universals and Particulars', 'Being You' and 'Things'

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9 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / c. Self-predication

4442	Most thinkers now reject self-predication (whiteness is NOT white) so there is no Third Man problem [Armstrong]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / c. Modern abstracta

7783	Bodies, properties, relations, events, numbers, sets and propositions are 'things' if they exist [Lowe]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 8. Brain

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Single neurons can carry out complex functions [Seth]

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The cerbellum has a huge number of neurons, but little involvement in consciousness [Seth]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / e. Cause of consciousness

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Maybe a system is conscious if the whole generates more information than its parts [Seth]

16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 2. Knowing the Self

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The self is embodied, perspectival, volitional, narrative and social [Seth, by PG]

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 6. Artificial Thought / a. Artificial Intelligence

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Modern AI is mostly machine-based pattern recognition [Seth]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act

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Volition is felt as doing what you want, with possible alternatives, and a source from within [Seth]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / d. Biological ethics

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Human exceptionalism plagues biology, and most other human thinking [Seth]