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Daniel Dennett

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
You don’t get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better.
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Advertisement Better Religion Subtract Yourself
True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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Crazy Help Religious Yourself
Words are memes that can be pronounced.
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Literature Pronounce Word
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
Cost is always an object – the second law of thermodynamics sees to that.
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Cost Law Object Science See
The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.
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Earth Growth Nervous Ourselves
Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about – about what the issues really are – and so often it takes them rather a long time to recognize that someone with a somewhat different approach (or destination, or starting point) is making a contribution.
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Contribution Destination Philosophy Quite Recognition Talk
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
YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
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Build Ourselves Robot Soul
The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.
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Goodness Hide Mistake Trick Yourself
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
You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
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Believe Seminar Yourself
A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library.
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Library Scholar Way
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
Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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Conscious Human Mystery Survive

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