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Words are memes that can be pronounced.

Daniel Dennett

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 mind is the effect, not the cause.
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Effect Mindset Science
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
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
I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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Moral Myself People Thinking
We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn’t admit it.
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Admit Atheist President
YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
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Build Ourselves Robot Soul
The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
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Discover Endorsement Evolution Reason
It’s a no win situation. It’s a mug’s game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically without being rude. They play the hurt feelings card at every opportunity.
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Criticism Feeling Hurt Opportunity Religious Situation Win
There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.
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Behavior Polite Rude Time Yourself
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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Evolution Internet Organization Phone Revolution Selection
There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions.
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Assumption Freedom Lying Philosophy Science
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
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
Words are memes that can be pronounced.
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Literature Pronounce Word
As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
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Destruction Enemy Hit Mindset Panic Worst Yourself

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