5 ideas
3291 | Emergent properties appear at high levels of complexity, but aren't explainable by the lower levels [Nagel] |
6019 | If someone squashed a horse to make a dog, something new would now exist [Mnesarchus] |
22405 | Negative utilitarianism implies that the world should be destroyed, to avoid future misery [Smart] |
22404 | Any group interested in ethics must surely have a sentiment of generalised benevolence [Smart] |
3290 | Given the nature of heat and of water, it is literally impossible for water not to boil at the right heat [Nagel] |