Infinite Minds: A Philosophical Cosmology

Title Pages
	John Leslie
Title Pages
(p.i) Infinite Minds (p.ii) (p.iii) Infinite Minds
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(p.v) Preface
	John Leslie
(p.v) Preface
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(p.v) Preface
Infinite Thinking
	John Leslie
Infinite Thinking
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Abstract and Keywords
Infinite Thinking
A Pantheistic Approach to the Problem of Evil
Infinite Thinking
Infinite Thinking
Infinite Thinking
Infinite Thinking
Divine Knowledge is Eternal Thinking, of Immense Complexity
Infinite Thinking
Structures in the Divine Mind can be the Structures of Real Things such as Humans
Infinite Thinking
Thought about Complex Structures Must itself be Complexly Structured, even when Divine
Infinite Thinking
Infinite Thinking
Infinite Thinking
(p.15) Up to Infinitely Many Universes Exist in the Divine Mind, Together with Many Things Not Organized into Universes
Infinite Thinking
Infinite Thinking
Infinite Thinking
Infinite Thinking
How Ignorance and Change can Exist Inside a Mind Vastly Knowledgeable and Eternal
Infinite Thinking
Infinite Thinking
Problems with Divine Knowledge of Absolutely Everything
Infinite Thinking
Infinite Thinking
Infinite Thinking
Infinite Thinking
Infinite Thinking
Infinite Thinking
Does Unlimited Knowledge Run into Cantorian Difficulties?
Infinite Thinking
Infinite Thinking
Infinite Thinking
Unlimited Knowledge Could Well be Undesirable
Infinite Thinking
Infinite Thinking
Unlimited Knowledge Might Perhaps Be Impossible on Grounds Going Beyond Mere Logic
Infinite Thinking
Pantheistic Writings
Infinite Thinking
Infinite Thinking
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Infinite Thinking
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
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Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
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Abstract and Keywords
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Structural Unity and Unity of Existence
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Without Unity of Existence there can be No Real Value
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Quantum Theory can Suggest that our Universe is Unified in its Existence
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Common Sense Itself Indicates that Something Unified in its Existence can be Complex
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
(p.57) Bradley, Russell, and Relations
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
(p.59) In a Whole Unified in its Existence, Must a Change in Any Part Affect All the Others?
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Our Conscious States Show us that Wholes can be Unified in their Existence
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
How it Feels to Be a Conscious Being
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Knowledge beyond Mere Knowledge of Structure
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Partial Fusions could Explain the Qualitative Nature of Consciousness
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
To Varying Degrees, Conscious States can be Split up, and Quantum Theory might Say Why
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
(p.82) Overlaps could be Crucial to Perceptions and Thoughts that are Intrinsically Worth Having
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Quantum Computers
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Might Regions of the Brain Act as Quantum Computers?
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
(p.93) Can Anything Exist Without there Being Consciousness of it?
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Divine Knowledge and Ignorance
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Many Divine Minds?
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
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Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Minds Human, Artificial, and Divine
Time and Immortality
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Time and Immortality
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Abstract and Keywords
Time and Immortality
Time's Reality Cannot Disprove Pantheism
Time and Immortality
Time and Immortality
Time and Immortality
Neither Physics nor Private Experience can Disprove Four-Dimensional Existence
Time and Immortality
Time and Immortality
Time and Immortality
A World Existing Four-Dimensionally, with Time as one of its Dimensions, might Exist Eternally in Time of Another Type
Time and Immortality
Time and Immortality
The World could be Much Better Through Existing Four-Dimensionally
Time and Immortality
Time and Immortality
Pantheism and Life after Death
Time and Immortality
Time and Immortality
Time and Immortality
Further Speculations about our Afterlives (if we have any)
Time and Immortality
Time and Immortality
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Time and Immortality
The Best and Infinity
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The Best and Infinity
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Abstract and Keywords
The Best and Infinity
How to Avoid Idiocy when Saying ‘Best Possible’
The Best and Infinity
The Best and Infinity
The Best and Infinity
The Best and Infinity
Worthwhile Effort in a Pantheistic Scheme of Things
The Best and Infinity
The Best and Infinity
The Best and Infinity
Pantheism and the Privation Theory of Evil
The Best and Infinity
The Best and Infinity
(p.148) Infinitely Many Divine Minds
The Best and Infinity
The Best and Infinity
Would Divine Minds Need to Differ?
The Best and Infinity
The Best and Infinity
The Best and Infinity
A Cantorian Question
The Best and Infinity
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Necessary Divine Existence
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Necessary Divine Existence
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Abstract and Keywords
Necessary Divine Existence
Efforts to Explain All Existence
Necessary Divine Existence
Necessary Divine Existence
Necessary Divine Existence
The Platonic Theory of Why there is Anything in Existence
Necessary Divine Existence
Necessary Divine Existence
Necessary Divine Existence
Necessary Divine Existence
Some Objections to the Platonic Creation Story
Necessary Divine Existence
Necessary Divine Existence
Necessary Divine Existence
Necessary Divine Existence
How Ethical Requirements might be Real Necessarily, and with Necessary Creative Power
Necessary Divine Existence
Necessary Divine Existence
Necessary Divine Existence
(p.176) Concessions
Necessary Divine Existence
Necessary Divine Existence
Necessary Divine Existence
Competing Pictures of God
	(i) God as an abstract force or principle, or a creative aspect of the cosmos
Necessary Divine Existence
	(ii) God as a person existing for reasons of value, and perhaps creating everything else
Necessary Divine Existence
Necessary Divine Existence
	(iii) A pantheistic divine mind, or an infinite collection of such minds
Necessary Divine Existence
Competing Senses of ‘God’, ‘Platonic’, and ‘Neoplatonic’
Necessary Divine Existence
Necessary Divine Existence
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Necessary Divine Existence
Necessary Divine Existence
The Evidence
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The Evidence
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Abstract and Keywords
The Evidence
Possible Evidence in Favour of a Pantheistic and Platonic Account of the World
The Evidence
The Evidence Provided by the World's Existence
The Evidence
The Evidence
The Evidence
The Evidence
(p.197) Causal Orderliness as Further Evidence
The Evidence
The Evidence
The Evidence
The Evidence
Cosmic Fine Tuning
The Evidence
The Evidence
Philosophical Objections to Arguments Based on Fine Tuning
The Evidence
The Evidence
The Evidence
Fine Tuning Might Suggest Observational Selection
The Evidence
The Evidence
Matters Hard to Treat as Observationally Selected
The Evidence
The Evidence
(p.215) Observational Selection Inside a Pantheistic Scheme of Things
The Evidence
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The Evidence
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(p.229) Index of Names
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(p.232) Index of Subjects
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