Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Mental Life of Some Machines', 'What is an Emotion?' and 'Introduction to Philosophical Papers II'

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4 ideas

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / d. Humean supervenience

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Humean supervenience says the world is just a vast mosaic of qualities in space-time [Lewis]

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]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / a. Nature of emotions

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Rage is inconceivable without bodily responses; so there are no disembodied emotions [James]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature

9426	The world is just a vast mosaic of little matters of local particular fact [Lewis]