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

Daniel Dennett

No matter how smart you are, you’re smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.
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Easy Smart Way Yourself
Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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Evolution Internet Organization Phone Revolution Selection
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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Dreams Imagination Knowledge Yourself
Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.
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Break Down Forever Ignorance Relative Religion
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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Evidence Life Science Subject
Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.
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Hold Life Paint Philosophy
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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Competition Consider Mindset Possible
AI makes philosophy honest.
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Artificial Honesty Intelligence Philosophy
I’m the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics.
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Color Criticism Deny Experience Myself Pain People Repeat
We need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves had at their age. It is scary, but the alternative is worse.
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Children Growth Knowledge Need Ourselves Worst
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
If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.
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Better Myself Time Yourself
It’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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Criticism Feeling Hurt Opportunity Religious Situation Win
The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
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Discover Endorsement Evolution Reason
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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Contribution Destination Philosophy Quite Recognition Talk
There’s no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) ‘Do you realize you’ve wasted your life?
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Life Polite Religious Wasted Time Yourself

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