What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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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There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.
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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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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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AI makes philosophy honest.
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Darwin’s idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
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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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Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.
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If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.
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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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YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
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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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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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I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
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