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Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species – us.

Daniel Dennett

Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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Conscious Human Mystery Survive
The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.
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Care Effort Examination Life Meaning Worth
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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Belief Believe God Ground Imagination Science
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
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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Blessing God Gratitude Ideas Innovation Life Ourselves Worth
I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
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Better Philosophy Question Science Way Yourself
The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died.
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Chain Death End Philosophy
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
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
There’s no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) ‘Do you realize you’ve wasted your life?
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Life Polite Religious Wasted Time Yourself
Cost is always an object – the second law of thermodynamics sees to that.
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Cost Law Object Science See
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
A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library.
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Library Scholar Way
We need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves had at their age. It is scary, but the alternative is worse.
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Children Growth Knowledge Need Ourselves Worst
The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
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Discover Endorsement Evolution Reason
The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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Dedication Happiness Life Secret Yourself

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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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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