8 ideas
5500 | Biologists see many organic levels, 'abstract' if seen from below, 'structural' if seen from above [Lycan] |
579 | Cratylus said you couldn't even step into the same river once [Cratylus, by Aristotle] |
5494 | 'Lightning is electric discharge' and 'Phosphorus is Venus' are synthetic a posteriori identities [Lycan] |
578 | Cratylus decided speech was hopeless, and his only expression was the movement of a finger [Cratylus, by Aristotle] |
5496 | Functionalism has three linked levels: physical, functional, and mental [Lycan] |
5499 | A mental state is a functional realisation of a brain state when it serves the purpose of the organism [Lycan] |
3448 | Do new ideas increase the weight of the brain? [Dance] |
5501 | People are trying to explain biological teleology in naturalistic causal terms [Lycan] |