13 ideas
3296 | Sense-data are a false objectification of what is essentially subjective [Nagel] |
3295 | Inner v outer brings astonishment that we are a particular person [Nagel] |
23513 | Single neurons can carry out complex functions [Seth] |
23514 | The cerbellum has a huge number of neurons, but little involvement in consciousness [Seth] |
23516 | Maybe a system is conscious if the whole generates more information than its parts [Seth] |
3293 | If you assert that we have an ego, you can still ask if that future ego will be me [Nagel] |
23519 | The self is embodied, perspectival, volitional, narrative and social [Seth, by PG] |
3292 | The most difficult problem of free will is saying what the problem is [Nagel] |
23518 | Modern AI is mostly machine-based pattern recognition [Seth] |
23517 | Volition is felt as doing what you want, with possible alternatives, and a source from within [Seth] |
23515 | Human exceptionalism plagues biology, and most other human thinking [Seth] |
3294 | As far as possible we should become instruments to realise what is best from an eternal point of view [Nagel] |
15877 | The aim of science is just to create a comprehensive, elegant language to describe brute facts [Poincaré, by Harré] |