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All the ideas for '67: Platonic Questions', 'The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding' and 'Recent Work on Consciousness'

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11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

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Understanding is seeing coherent relationships in the relevant information [Kvanvig]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 2. Psuche

5960	When the soul is intelligent and harmonious, it is part of god and derives from god [Plutarch]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 3. Privacy

7522	A full neural account of qualia will give new epistemic access to them, beyond private experience [Churchlands]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 5. Qualia / c. Explaining qualia

7521	It is question-begging to assume that qualia are totally simple, hence irreducible [Churchlands]

7523	The qualia Hard Problem is easy, in comparison with the co-ordination of mental states [Churchlands]