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Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.

Richard Dawkins

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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Amount Beyond Decent Natural Suffering World
The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner.
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Deep Dinner Fox Life Rabbit Run
Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
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Destroy Evolution Existence Past Quality
We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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Alone Earth Rebel Selfish
Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
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Choose Indeed Life Wonderful
American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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Against Country Honesty Intelligence Opportunity Politics
The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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Beautiful Puzzle Solution
Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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Crime Victim
My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
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Belief Justice Misery Object Science World
Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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Confusion Fun Myth Truth
The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
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Capable Experience Feeling Giving Human Science Wonder
We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.
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Evolution Machine Molecule Science Survival Truth Vehicle
Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Evil Religion Root
Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
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Doubt Gravity Jump Truth Version Window
I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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Argument
How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
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Arrange God Religion

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