True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
DANIEL DENNETTSometimes 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.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.
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There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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Thanks to technology, what almost anybody can do has been multiplied a thousandfold, and our moral understanding about what we ought to do hasn’t kept pace.
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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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Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.
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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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You don’t get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better.
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AI makes philosophy honest.
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The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.
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The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every other branch of the life sciences.
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Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.
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Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.
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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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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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