20 ideas
| 3798 | An overexamined life is as bad as an unexamined one [Dennett] |
| 9327 | Organisms understand their worlds better if they understand themselves [Gulick] |
| 3801 | Rationality requires the assumption that things are either for better or worse [Dennett] |
| 19404 | Necessities rest on contradiction, and contingencies on sufficient reason [Leibniz] |
| 3802 | Why pronounce impossible what you cannot imagine? [Dennett] |
| 9325 | In contrast with knowledge, the notion of understanding emphasizes practical engagement [Gulick] |
| 9326 | Knowing-that is a much richer kind of knowing-how [Gulick] |
| 3795 | Causal theories require the "right" sort of link (usually unspecified) [Dennett] |
| 9319 | Is consciousness a type of self-awareness, or is being self-aware a way of being conscious? [Gulick] |
| 9320 | Higher-order theories divide over whether the higher level involves thought or perception [Gulick] |
| 9321 | Higher-order models reduce the problem of consciousness to intentionality [Gulick] |
| 9322 | Maybe qualia only exist at the lower level, and a higher-level is needed for what-it-is-like [Gulick] |
| 3797 | I am the sum total of what I directly control [Dennett] |
| 3803 | Can we conceive of a being with a will freer than our own? [Dennett] |
| 3800 | You can be free even though force would have prevented you doing otherwise [Dennett, by PG] |
| 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] |
| 19403 | Each of the infinite possible worlds has its own laws, and the individuals contain those laws [Leibniz] |
| 9324 | From the teleopragmatic perspective, life is largely an informational process [Gulick] |