11 ideas
21900 | Deleuze relies on Spinoza (immanence), Bergson (duration), and difference (Nietzsche) [May] |
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] |
23518 | Modern AI is mostly machine-based pattern recognition [Seth] |
23517 | Volition is felt as doing what you want, with possible alternatives, and a source from within [Seth] |
8120 | Objects can be beautiful which express nothing at all, such as the rainbow [Herbart, by Tolstoy] |
23515 | Human exceptionalism plagues biology, and most other human thinking [Seth] |
21898 | For existentialists the present is empty without the pull of the future and weight of the past [May] |
21905 | Liberal theory starts from the governed, not from the governor [May] |