Sometimes you don’t just want to risk making mistakes; you actually want to make them – if only to give you something clear and detailed to fix.
DANIEL DENNETTReligions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.
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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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The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.
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Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
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Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.
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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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A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
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There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.
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AI makes philosophy honest.
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Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.
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The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.
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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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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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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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True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps. Indeed, if you are religious, you don’t have to be crazy in the medically certifiable sense in order to do massively crazy things.
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