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Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

Daniel Dennett

I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
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Better Philosophy Question Science Way Yourself
The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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Effect Mindset Science
Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
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Care Knowledge Yourself
A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library.
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Library Scholar Way
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
If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.
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Better Myself Time Yourself
I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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Moral Myself People Thinking
Minds are in limited supply, and each mind has a limited capacity for memes, and hence there is considerable competition among memes for entry in as many minds as possible.
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Competition Consider Mindset Possible
AI makes philosophy honest.
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Artificial Honesty Intelligence Philosophy
Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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Add Complication Easy Problem Science Time
Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about – about what the issues really are – and so often it takes them rather a long time to recognize that someone with a somewhat different approach (or destination, or starting point) is making a contribution.
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Contribution Destination Philosophy Quite Recognition Talk
In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.
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Afraid Cure Fantasy Hope Information Myself
The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.
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Earth Growth Nervous Ourselves
There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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Believe God Goodness Reason
You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
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Believe Seminar Yourself
Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.
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Natural Religion Social System

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