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15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 1. Mind / c. Features of mind

[observing features of a mind]

14 ideas
Mind is self-ruling, pure, ordering and ubiquitous [Anaxagoras, by Plato]
Mind involves movement, perception, incorporeality [Aristotle]
Eight parts of the soul: five senses, seeds, speech and reason [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
The spirit in the soul wants freedom, power and honour [Galen]
Intelligence is aware of itself, so the intelligence is both the thinker and the thought [Porphyry]
The will is not a desire, but the faculty of affirming what is true or false [Spinoza]
Will and intellect are the same thing [Spinoza]
The will is finite, but the intellect is infinite [Spinoza]
Consciousness has two parts, passively receiving sensation, and actively causing productions [Fichte]
Ideas are not spatial, and don't have distances between them [Frege]
Pain lacks intentionality; beliefs lack qualia [Rorty]
Mind is basically qualities and intentionality, but how do they connect? [Kim]
Mental states have causal powers [Fodor]
Minds are rational, conscious, subjective, self-knowing, free, meaningful and self-aware [Rowlands]