17 ideas
19574 | If man sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself, by acting against his own convictions [Novalis] |
19571 | Delusion and truth differ in their life functions [Novalis] |
19575 | Refinement of senses increasingly distinguishes individuals [Novalis] |
19572 | Experiences tests reason, and reason tests experience [Novalis] |
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] |
23519 | The self is embodied, perspectival, volitional, narrative and social [Seth, by PG] |
19573 | The seat of the soul is where our inner and outer worlds interpenetrate [Novalis] |
23518 | Modern AI is mostly machine-based pattern recognition [Seth] |
19577 | Everything is a chaotic unity, then we abstract, then we reunify the world into a free alliance [Novalis] |
23517 | Volition is felt as doing what you want, with possible alternatives, and a source from within [Seth] |
19578 | Only self-illuminated perfect individuals are beautiful [Novalis] |
23515 | Human exceptionalism plagues biology, and most other human thinking [Seth] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |
19576 | Religion needs an intermediary, because none of us can connect directly to a godhead [Novalis] |