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

Daniel Dennett

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 way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
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Discover Endorsement Evolution Reason
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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Decision Future Improvement Live Open World
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
Thanks to technology, what almost anybody can do has been multiplied a thousandfold, and our moral understanding about what we ought to do hasn’t kept pace.
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Moral Ourselves Technology Understand
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
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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Destruction Enemy Hit Mindset Panic Worst Yourself
Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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Add Complication Easy Problem Science Time
There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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Believe God Goodness Reason
Words are memes that can be pronounced.
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Literature Pronounce Word
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
Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species – us.
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Condition Freedom Human Mistake Objection Oneself
Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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Failure Imagination Mistake Necessary Philosophy
Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
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Care Knowledge Yourself
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
Love is blind, as they say, and because love is blind, it often leads to tragedy: to conflicts in which one love is pitted against another love, and something has to give, with suffering guaranteed in any resolution.
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Blind Love Resolution Suffering Tragedy

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