14 ideas
17990 | Instances of minimal truth miss out propositions inexpressible in current English [Hofweber] |
17988 | Quantification can't all be substitutional; some reference is obviously to objects [Hofweber] |
17989 | Since properties have properties, there can be a typed or a type-free theory of them [Hofweber] |
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] |
23519 | The self is embodied, perspectival, volitional, narrative and social [Seth, by PG] |
6383 | Cause unites our picture of the universe; without it, mental and physical will separate [Davidson] |
23518 | Modern AI is mostly machine-based pattern recognition [Seth] |
17991 | Holism says language can't be translated; the expressibility hypothesis says everything can [Hofweber] |
23517 | Volition is felt as doing what you want, with possible alternatives, and a source from within [Seth] |
6385 | The causally strongest reason may not be the reason the actor judges to be best [Davidson] |
6384 | The notion of cause is essential to acting for reasons, intentions, agency, akrasia, and free will [Davidson] |
23515 | Human exceptionalism plagues biology, and most other human thinking [Seth] |