YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
DANIEL DENNETTNot a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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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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A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library.
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Darwin’s idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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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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I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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Words are memes that can be pronounced.
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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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You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
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In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing has so much as a function; there was no teleology in the world at all.
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I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
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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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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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There’s no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) ‘Do you realize you’ve wasted your life?
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