The mind is the effect, not the cause.
DANIEL DENNETTLife itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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Darwin’s idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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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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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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The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.
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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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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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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.
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YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
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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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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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The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.
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What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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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.
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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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