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All the ideas for 'Brain Bisection and Unity of Consciousness', 'Dispositional Essentialism and the Laws of Nature' and 'Letters to Varignon'

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4 ideas

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 5. Unity of Mind

2957	Brain bisection suggests unity of mind isn't all-or-nothing [Nagel, by Lockwood]

16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 4. Presupposition of Self

3285	We may be unable to abandon personal identity, even when split-brains have undermined it [Nagel]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws

17993

Laws are relations of kinds, quantities and qualities, supervening on the essences of a domain [Vetter]

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

19414

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