I think that what one can see from a Darwinian account is how the addition of culture in our species turns us into a very special sort of animal, an animal that can be a moral agent in a way that no other animal can be.
DANIEL DENNETTIt is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.
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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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There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
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There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
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Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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Words are memes that can be pronounced.
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Cost is always an object – the second law of thermodynamics sees to that.
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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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The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes restructure a human brain in order to make it a better habitat for memes.
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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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A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library.
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Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.
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