@misc{Lexicon of Arguments, title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 28 Mar 2024}, author = {Locke,John}, subject = {Mental States}, note = {Dennett I 30 Mind/Locke: blank slate. (Goes back to Plato). Mind/Locke: "evidence" of the primacy of the mind: If there is the eternal, there must be a thinking being. Unthinking matter can never produce a thinking being. Nor can such matter emerge out of nothing. Matter can not even produce moving out of itself. Therefore, at the beginning there must be a mind. - - - Euchner I 32 Mind/Locke: skills: 1. distinguish - 2. compare - 3. assemble - 4. abstract. That makes more complex insights possible. Indispensable: 1. memory - 2. language. >Thinking/Locke, >World/thinking, >Language/Locke.}, note = { Loc III J. Locke An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Dennett I D. Dennett Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, New York 1995 German Edition: Darwins gefährliches Erbe Hamburg 1997 Dennett II D. Dennett Kinds of Minds, New York 1996 German Edition: Spielarten des Geistes Gütersloh 1999 Dennett III Daniel Dennett "COG: Steps towards consciousness in robots" In Bewusstein, Thomas Metzinger, Paderborn/München/Wien/Zürich 1996 Dennett IV Daniel Dennett "Animal Consciousness. What Matters and Why?", in: D. C. Dennett, Brainchildren. Essays on Designing Minds, Cambridge/MA 1998, pp. 337-350 In Der Geist der Tiere, D Perler/M. Wild, Frankfurt/M. 2005 Loc I W. Euchner Locke zur Einführung Hamburg 1996 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=225710} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=225710} }