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The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.

Daniel Dennett

I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
DANIEL DENNETT

Better Philosophy Question Science Way Yourself
There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
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Dangerous Force Fundamental Planet
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
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
I am inclined to think that nothing could matter more than what people love. At any rate, I can think of no value that I would place higher. I would not want to live in a world without love.
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Love Myself People Rate Thinking
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
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
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
Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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Conscious Human Mystery Survive
Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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Failure Imagination Mistake Necessary Philosophy
I think that what one can see from a Darwinian account is how the addition of culture in our species turns us into a very special sort of animal, an animal that can be a moral agent in a way that no other animal can be.
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Agency Animal Culture Moral See Thinking
Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.
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Believe God People Religious
Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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Add Complication Easy Problem Science Time
It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.
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Brain Ourselves
AI makes philosophy honest.
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Artificial Honesty Intelligence Philosophy
Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.
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Natural Religion Social System

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