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.
DANIEL DENNETTProblems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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No matter how smart you are, you’re smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.
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True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.
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Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
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The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died.
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I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
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Cost is always an object – the second law of thermodynamics sees to that.
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AI makes philosophy honest.
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Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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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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There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.
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Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.
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Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.
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