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15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 3. Mental Causation
4862 Can the pineal gland be moved more slowly or quickly by the mind than by animal spirits? [Spinoza on Descartes]
15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 4. Other Minds / c. Knowing other minds
3850 We discovers others as well as ourselves in the Cogito [Sartre on Descartes]
12551 We are satisfied that other men have minds, from their words and actions [Locke]
15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 5. Unity of Mind
2302 Faculties of the mind aren't parts, as one mind uses them [Descartes]
15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 7. Animal Minds
1875 Dogs show reason in decisions made by elimination [Chrysippus, by Sext.Empiricus]
12483 Unlike humans, animals cannot entertain general ideas [Locke]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / f. Higher-order thought
5002 Consciousness is the perception of what passes in a man's own mind [Locke]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 2. Unconscious Mind
2603 If we aren't aware that an idea is innate, the concept of innate is meaningless; if we do, all ideas seem innate [Locke]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 5. Qualia / a. Nature of qualia
3151 Descartes put thought at the centre of the mind problem, but we put sensation [Rey on Descartes]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 6. Inverted Qualia
2421 There is nothing illogical about inverted qualia [Locke]
3522 The same object might produce violet in one mind and marigold in another [Locke]
15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 1. Faculties
21800 Descartes mentions many cognitive faculties, but reduces them to will and intellect [Descartes, by Schmid]
15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 2. Imagination
1399 Imagination and sensation are non-essential to mind [Descartes]
7721 Locke's view that thoughts are made of ideas asserts the crucial role of imagination [Locke]
15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 4. Objectification
12476 Every external object or internal idea suggests to us the idea of unity [Locke]
12501 The mind can make a unity out of anything, no matter how diverse [Locke]
15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 5. Generalisation by mind
9083 The mind creates abstractions by generalising about appearances of objects, ignoring time or place [Locke]
7040 General words represent general ideas, which are abstractions from immediate circumstances [Locke]
15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 8. Remembering Contiguity
12528 If a man sees a friend die in a room, he associates the pain with the room [Locke]