13 ideas
| 23269 | Philosophy must start from clearly observed facts [Galen] |
| 23266 | The spirit in the soul wants freedom, power and honour [Galen] |
| 23219 | Stopping the heart doesn't terminate activity; pressing the brain does that [Galen, by Cobb] |
| 3286 | An organism is conscious if and only if there is something it is like to be that organism [Nagel] |
| 23264 | Philosophers think faculties are in substances, and invent a faculty for every activity [Galen] |
| 3288 | Can we describe our experiences to zombies? [Nagel] |
| 4883 | Nagel's title creates an impenetrable mystery, by ignoring a bat's ways that may not be "like" anything [Dennett on Nagel] |
| 3287 | We can't be objective about experience [Nagel] |
| 23220 | The brain contains memory and reason, and is the source of sensation and decision [Galen] |
| 4989 | Physicalism should explain how subjective experience is possible, but not 'what it is like' [Kirk,R on Nagel] |
| 23265 | The rational part of the soul is the desire for truth, understanding and recollection [Galen] |
| 20239 | Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche] |
| 23268 | We execute irredeemable people, to protect ourselves, as a deterrent, and ending a bad life [Galen] |