10 ideas
22363 | You have only begun to do real science when you can express it in numbers [Kelvin] |
21833 | Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan] |
21834 | Sensations may be identical to brain events, but complex mental events don't seem to be [Flanagan] |
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] |
22406 | The maximisation of happiness must be done fairly [Rawls, by Smart] |
21831 | Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan] |
20644 | Energy has progressed from a mere formula, to a principle pervading all nature [Kelvin] |
21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |