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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Brain Bisection and Unity of Consciousness' and 'Letter to Peter Wilhelm Lund'

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6 ideas

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 8. Subjective Truth

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I recognise knowledge, but it is the truth by which I can live and die that really matters [Kierkegaard]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / d. Non-being

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Not-Being obviously doesn't exist, and the five modes of Being are all impossible [Gorgias, by Diog. Laertius]

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]

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

9866	Gorgias says rhetoric is the best of arts, because it enslaves without using force [Gorgias, by Plato]

5864	Destroy seriousness with laughter, and laughter with seriousness [Gorgias]