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The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.

Daniel Dennett

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
I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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Moral Myself People Thinking
The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
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Discover Endorsement Evolution Reason
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
The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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Dedication Happiness Life Secret Yourself
As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
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Destruction Enemy Hit Mindset Panic Worst Yourself
The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every other branch of the life sciences.
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Evidence Life Science Subject
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 look around the world and see so many wonderful things that I love and enjoy and benefit from, whether it’s art or music or clothing or food and all the rest. And I’d like to add a little to that goodness.
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Different Enjoyment Goodness Love Myself See World
Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.
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Believe God People Religious
Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
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Care Knowledge Yourself
Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.
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Break Down Forever Ignorance Relative Religion
YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
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Build Ourselves Robot Soul
The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.
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Goodness Hide Mistake Trick Yourself
The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died.
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Chain Death End Philosophy
The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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Effect Mindset Science

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