11 ideas
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] |
4867 | Whether nature is beautiful or orderly is entirely in relation to human imagination [Spinoza] |
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] |
4866 | God is a being with infinite attributes, each of them infinite or perfect [Spinoza] |
7902 | The Buddha made flowers float in the air, to impress people, and make them listen [Mahavastu] |
4868 | Trying to prove God's existence through miracles is proving the obscure by the more obscure [Spinoza] |
21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |