13 ideas
| 9327 | Organisms understand their worlds better if they understand themselves [Gulick] |
| 16641 | Whiteness does not exist, but by it something can exist-as-white [Aquinas] |
| 490 | Everything happens by reason and necessity [Leucippus] |
| 9325 | In contrast with knowledge, the notion of understanding emphasizes practical engagement [Gulick] |
| 22170 | Senses grasp external properties, but the understanding grasps the essential natures of things [Aquinas] |
| 9326 | Knowing-that is a much richer kind of knowing-how [Gulick] |
| 22169 | Initial universal truths are present within us as potential, to be drawn out by reason [Aquinas] |
| 22168 | Minds take in a likeness of things, which activates an awaiting potential [Aquinas] |
| 9319 | Is consciousness a type of self-awareness, or is being self-aware a way of being conscious? [Gulick] |
| 9320 | Higher-order theories divide over whether the higher level involves thought or perception [Gulick] |
| 9321 | Higher-order models reduce the problem of consciousness to intentionality [Gulick] |
| 9322 | Maybe qualia only exist at the lower level, and a higher-level is needed for what-it-is-like [Gulick] |
| 9324 | From the teleopragmatic perspective, life is largely an informational process [Gulick] |