9 ideas
5035 | The two basics of reasoning are contradiction and sufficient reason [Leibniz] |
3286 | An organism is conscious if and only if there is something it is like to be that organism [Nagel] |
5038 | Assume that mind and body follow their own laws, but God has harmonised them [Leibniz] |
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] |
4989 | Physicalism should explain how subjective experience is possible, but not 'what it is like' [Kirk,R on Nagel] |
20239 | Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche] |
5037 | God doesn't decide that Adam will sin, but that sinful Adam's existence is to be preferred [Leibniz] |