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Cost is always an object – the second law of thermodynamics sees to that.

Daniel Dennett

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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Achievement Concern Ethics Mathematics Problem Science System
Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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Conscious Human Mystery Survive
Darwin’s idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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Direction Ideas Natural People Tradition
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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Brain Depend Human Mindset Place Reach
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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Afraid Cure Fantasy Hope Information Myself
YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
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Build Ourselves Robot Soul
I don’t think there is any religious revival. I think what we are hearing, the furor, is merely the hysterical response of the churches the handwriting on the wall that they are seeing.
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Myself Religious Respond Revive See Thinking Writing
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.
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Imagination Live Mystery Ourselves Philosophy
Words are memes that can be pronounced.
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Literature Pronounce Word
The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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Dedication Happiness Life Secret Yourself
A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library.
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Library Scholar Way
We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn’t admit it.
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Admit Atheist President
The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
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Discover Endorsement Evolution Reason
Cost is always an object – the second law of thermodynamics sees to that.
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Cost Law Object Science See
There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.
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Dedication Illusion People Polite Simplicity
AI makes philosophy honest.
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Artificial Honesty Intelligence Philosophy

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