11 ideas
21833 | Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan] |
5517 | Individuals don't exist, but are conventional names for sets of elements [Buddha] |
21834 | Sensations may be identical to brain events, but complex mental events don't seem to be [Flanagan] |
22100 | Experienced time means no two mental moments are ever alike [Bergson] |
21837 | Morality is normative because it identifies best practices among the normal practices [Flanagan] |
21830 | For Darwinians, altruism is either contracts or genetics [Flanagan] |
21835 | We need Eudaimonics - the empirical study of how we should flourish [Flanagan] |
21831 | Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan] |
7600 | The Buddha believed the gods would eventually disappear, and Nirvana was much higher [Buddha, by Armstrong,K] |
7601 | Life is suffering, from which only compassion, gentleness, truth and sobriety can save us [Buddha] |
21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |