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The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.

Daniel Dennett

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.
DANIEL DENNETT

Crazy Medical Religious True Yourself
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
True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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Crazy Help Religious Yourself
The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
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Discover Endorsement Evolution Reason
Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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Add Complication Easy Problem Science Time
I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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Moral Myself People Thinking
Words are memes that can be pronounced.
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Literature Pronounce Word
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
AI makes philosophy honest.
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Artificial Honesty Intelligence Philosophy
We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn’t admit it.
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Admit Atheist President
The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.
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Earth Growth Nervous Ourselves
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.
DANIEL DENNETT

Destruction Enemy Hit Mindset Panic Worst Yourself
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
A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library.
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Library Scholar Way
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
Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.
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Hold Life Paint Philosophy

The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.

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