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All the ideas for 'Reason, Emotions and Good Life', 'Minds, Brains and Science' and 'Of Liberty and Necessity'

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5 ideas

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 5. Contingency

6215	'Contingent' means that the cause is unperceived, not that there is no cause [Hobbes]

17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 7. Chinese Room

2427	Maybe understanding doesn't need consciousness, despite what Searle seems to think [Searle, by Chalmers]

7389	A program won't contain understanding if it is small enough to imagine [Dennett on Searle]

7390	If bigger and bigger brain parts can't understand, how can a whole brain? [Dennett on Searle]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / a. Practical reason

4316	Either all action is rational, or reason dominates, or reason is only concerned with means [Cottingham]