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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Survival and Identity, with postscript' and 'Brain Bisection and Unity of Consciousness'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 4. Divisions of Philosophy

20771

Six parts: dialectic, rhetoric, ethics, politics, physics, theology [Cleanthes, by Diog. Laertius]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 4. De re / De dicto modality

16079

De re modal predicates are ambiguous [Lewis, by Rudder Baker]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 5. Unity of Mind

2957	Brain bisection suggests unity of mind isn't all-or-nothing [Nagel, by Lockwood]

16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 4. Presupposition of Self

3285	We may be unable to abandon personal identity, even when split-brains have undermined it [Nagel]

17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 8. Dualism of Mind Critique

6028	Bodies interact with other bodies, and cuts cause pain, and shame causes blushing, so the soul is a body [Cleanthes, by Nemesius]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind

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The soul suffers when the body hurts, creates redness from shame, and pallor from fear [Cleanthes]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / b. Teleological Proof

5993	The ascending scale of living creatures requires a perfect being [Cleanthes, by Tieleman]