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All the ideas for 'Folk Psychology', 'Letters to Varignon' and 'The Problem of Consciousness'

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6 ideas

17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 6. Mysterianism

7388	McGinn invites surrender, by saying it is hopeless trying to imagine conscious machines [Dennett on McGinn]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / b. Multiple realisability

3185	Multiple realisability rules out hidden essences and experts as the source of water- and gold-concepts [McGinn]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 4. Folk Psychology

7518	If folk psychology gives a network of causal laws, that fits neatly with functionalism [Churchland,PM]

7519	Many mental phenomena are totally unexplained by folk psychology [Churchland,PM]

7520	Folk psychology never makes any progress, and is marginalised by modern science [Churchland,PM]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

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Men are related to animals, which are related to plants, then to fossils, and then to the apparently inert [Leibniz]