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Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.

Daniel Dennett

The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
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Achievement Concern Ethics Mathematics Problem Science System
True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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Crazy Help Religious Yourself
No matter how smart you are, you’re smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.
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Easy Smart Way Yourself
I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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Moral Myself People Thinking
Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
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Care Knowledge Yourself
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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Dreams Imagination Knowledge Yourself
Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.
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Hold Life Paint Philosophy
Darwin’s idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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Direction Ideas Natural People Tradition
There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.
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Care Complete Guide Knowledge Limitation Yourself
The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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Effect Mindset Science
The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died.
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Chain Death End Philosophy
Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.
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Architecture Greatness Harm Music Pay Treasure
I don’t think there is any religious revival. I think what we are hearing, the furor, is merely the hysterical response of the churches the handwriting on the wall that they are seeing.
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Myself Religious Respond Revive See Thinking Writing
We need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves had at their age. It is scary, but the alternative is worse.
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Children Growth Knowledge Need Ourselves Worst
YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
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Build Ourselves Robot Soul
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
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Alone Children Desert Empathy

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