What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the great enterprises of exploration that are illuminating the mysteries of our lives.
DANIEL DENNETTIt’s a no win situation. It’s a mug’s game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically without being rude. They play the hurt feelings card at every opportunity.
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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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To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant — inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write.
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There’s no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) ‘Do you realize you’ve wasted your life?
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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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AI makes philosophy honest.
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The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.
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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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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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There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.
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Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.
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True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don’t imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.
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Words are memes that can be pronounced.
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