12 ideas
5451 | Popper felt that ancient essentialism was a bar to progress [Popper, by Mautner] |
6375 | The taste of chocolate is a 'finer-grained' sensation than the taste of sweetness [Polger] |
3286 | An organism is conscious if and only if there is something it is like to be that organism [Nagel] |
6381 | The mind and the self are one, and the mind-self is a biological phenomenon [Polger] |
3288 | Can we describe our experiences to zombies? [Nagel] |
6378 | Teleological functions explain why a trait exists; causal-role functions say what it does [Polger] |
4883 | Nagel's title creates an impenetrable mystery, by ignoring a bat's ways that may not be "like" anything [Dennett on Nagel] |
3287 | We can't be objective about experience [Nagel] |
6380 | Identity theory says consciousness is an abstraction: a state, event, process or property [Polger] |
4989 | Physicalism should explain how subjective experience is possible, but not 'what it is like' [Kirk,R on Nagel] |
6379 | A mummified heart has the teleological function of circulating blood [Polger] |
6377 | Teleological notions of function say what a thing is supposed to do [Polger] |