17 ideas
| 23514 | The cerbellum has a huge number of neurons, but little involvement in consciousness [Seth] |
| 23513 | Single neurons can carry out complex functions [Seth] |
| 23516 | Maybe a system is conscious if the whole generates more information than its parts [Seth] |
| 7647 | The imagination alone perceives all objects; it is the soul, playing all its roles [La Mettrie] |
| 23519 | The self is embodied, perspectival, volitional, narrative and social [Seth, by PG] |
| 7645 | When falling asleep, the soul becomes paralysed and weak, just like the body [La Mettrie] |
| 23225 | The soul's faculties depend on the brain, and are simply the brain's organisation [La Mettrie] |
| 7652 | Man is a machine, and there exists only one substance, diversely modified [La Mettrie] |
| 7650 | All thought is feeling, and rationality is the sensitive soul contemplating reasoning [La Mettrie] |
| 23518 | Modern AI is mostly machine-based pattern recognition [Seth] |
| 7651 | With wonderful new machines being made, a speaking machine no longer seems impossible [La Mettrie] |
| 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] |
| 7648 | The sun and rain weren't made for us; they sometimes burn us, or spoil our seeds [La Mettrie] |
| 7646 | There is no abrupt transition from man to animal; only language has opened a gap [La Mettrie] |
| 1558 | Clearly the gods ignore human affairs, or they would have given us justice [Thrasymachus] |
| 7649 | There is no clear idea of the soul, which should only refer to our thinking part [La Mettrie] |