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All the ideas for 'The Mental Life of Some Machines', 'talk' and 'Some Puzzles of Ground'

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4 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 2. Wise People

7536	If you hope to improve the world, all you can do is improve yourself [Wittgenstein]

4. Formal Logic / E. Nonclassical Logics / 3. Many-Valued Logic

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Strong Kleene disjunction just needs one true disjunct; Weak needs the other to have some value [Fine,K]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 1. Grounding / a. Nature of grounding

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Formal grounding needs transitivity of grounding, no self-grounding, and the existence of both parties [Fine,K]

17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 2. Machine Functionalism

5495	Instances of pain are physical tokens, but the nature of pain is more abstract [Putnam, by Lycan]