The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 128 of 254
Unity is an effect, not a cause
unity is not a cause: it is an effect of a remarkably disunified,…
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Atheism
An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling…
Beliefs have no intrinsic features
Mental states such as beliefs are not defined by any intrinsic features, rather they are defined by their causal relations, and these causal relations…
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #functionalism #beliefs #cause
Causal interaction between mind and body
What exactly are the relations between the mental and the physical, and in particular how can there be causal relations between them? It seems impossible that…
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #mind-body-problem #dualism #cause
Causal reduction without ontological reduction
On the dualist’s conception, consciousness is definitely something over and above its material substrate. Indeed the dualist supposes that the irreducibility…
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #reductionism #ontology #consciousness #cause
Causation as one damn thing after another
This felt determination of the mind gives us the conviction that there are necessary connections in nature. But that conviction is nothing but an illusion…
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #cause #illusion #nature
Chicken and the pig fable
The fable of The Chicken and the Pig is about commitment to a project or cause. When producing a dish made of ham and eggs, the pig provides the ham which…
The Chicken And The Pig - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia #eggs #cause