Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Mental Life of Some Machines', 'Ethics of Ambiguity' and 'The Nature of Musical Expression'

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4 ideas

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]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 4. Art as Expression

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Romantics say music expresses ideas, or the Will, or intuitions, or feelings [Scruton]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 4. Emotion in Art

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Expressing melancholy is a good thing, but arousing it is a bad thing [Scruton]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 3. Angst

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If existence is absurd it can never have a meaning [Beauvoir]