14 ideas
3269 | If your life is to be meaningful as part of some large thing, the large thing must be meaningful [Nagel] |
19400 | Possibles demand existence, so as many of them as possible must actually exist [Leibniz] |
19401 | God's sufficient reason for choosing reality is in the fitness or perfection of possibilities [Leibniz] |
2526 | Philosophers regularly confuse failures of imagination with insights into necessity [Dennett] |
19402 | The actual universe is the richest composite of what is possible [Leibniz] |
2523 | That every mammal has a mother is a secure reality, but without foundations [Dennett] |
3270 | Justifications come to an end when we want them to [Nagel] |
2528 | Does consciousness need the concept of consciousness? [Dennett] |
2525 | Maybe language is crucial to consciousness [Dennett] |
2527 | Unconscious intentionality is the foundation of the mind [Dennett] |
2530 | Could a robot be made conscious just by software? [Dennett] |
2524 | A language of thought doesn't explain content [Dennett] |
2529 | Maybe there can be non-conscious concepts (e.g. in bees) [Dennett] |
3268 | If a small brief life is absurd, then so is a long and large one [Nagel] |