The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of goodness – by setting to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come.
DANIEL DENNETTThe best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of goodness – by setting to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come.
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A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library.
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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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True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be “informavores”, epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world, the better to make decisions about our subjectively open future.
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What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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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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Minds are in limited supply, and each mind has a limited capacity for memes, and hence there is considerable competition among memes for entry in as many minds as possible.
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There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
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The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.
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There’s no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) ‘Do you realize you’ve wasted your life?
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The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.
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Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
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Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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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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