26 ideas
8093 | Seek wisdom rather than truth; it is easier [Joubert] |
8095 | We must think with our entire body and soul [Joubert] |
8107 | The love of certainty holds us back in metaphysics [Joubert] |
8099 | The truths of reason instruct, but they do not illuminate [Joubert] |
5831 | The new view is that "water" is a name, and has no definition [Schwartz,SP] |
8098 | Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has [Joubert] |
5829 | We refer to Thales successfully by name, even if all descriptions of him are false [Schwartz,SP] |
5830 | The traditional theory of names says some of the descriptions must be correct [Schwartz,SP] |
8101 | To know is to see inside oneself [Joubert] |
23513 | Single neurons can carry out complex functions [Seth] |
23514 | The cerbellum has a huge number of neurons, but little involvement in consciousness [Seth] |
23516 | Maybe a system is conscious if the whole generates more information than its parts [Seth] |
8094 | The imagination has made more discoveries than the eye [Joubert] |
23519 | The self is embodied, perspectival, volitional, narrative and social [Seth, by PG] |
8103 | A thought is as real as a cannon ball [Joubert] |
23518 | Modern AI is mostly machine-based pattern recognition [Seth] |
5826 | The intension of "lemon" is the conjunction of properties associated with it [Schwartz,SP] |
8100 | Where does the bird's idea of a nest come from? [Joubert] |
23517 | Volition is felt as doing what you want, with possible alternatives, and a source from within [Seth] |
23515 | Human exceptionalism plagues biology, and most other human thinking [Seth] |
8096 | He gives his body up to pleasure, but not his soul [Joubert] |
8104 | What will you think of pleasures when you no longer enjoy them? [Joubert] |
8097 | Virtue is hard if we are scorned; we need support [Joubert] |
8106 | In raising a child we must think of his old age [Joubert] |
8105 | We can't exactly conceive virtue without the idea of God [Joubert] |
8102 | We cannot speak against Christianity without anger, or speak for it without love [Joubert] |