Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.
RICHARD DAWKINSWe are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.
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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
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We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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Don’t ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He’s too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.
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The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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The less you think, the more you believe.
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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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