YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
DANIEL DENNETTThere are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died.
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Words are memes that can be pronounced.
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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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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.
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Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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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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AI makes philosophy honest.
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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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I’m the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics.
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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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The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
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Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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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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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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