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Daniel Dennett

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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Achievement Concern Ethics Mathematics Problem Science System
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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Alone Children Desert Empathy
I look around the world and see so many wonderful things that I love and enjoy and benefit from, whether it’s art or music or clothing or food and all the rest. And I’d like to add a little to that goodness.
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Different Enjoyment Goodness Love Myself See World
The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of goodness – by setting to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come.
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Best Creation Goodness Place Thankful
In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing has so much as a function; there was no teleology in the world at all.
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Beginning Purpose Reason World
The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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Effect Mindset Science
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
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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Clear Detail Mistake Risk Time Yourself
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
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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Crazy Medical Religious True Yourself
I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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Moral Myself People Thinking
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
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 haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes restructure a human brain in order to make it a better habitat for memes.
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Brain Depend Human Mindset Place Reach
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

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