YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
DANIEL DENNETTDarwin’s idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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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 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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Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.
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We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be “informavores”, epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world, the better to make decisions about our subjectively open future.
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In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.
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A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library.
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Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.
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We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn’t admit it.
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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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Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
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AI makes philosophy honest.
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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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