Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.
DANIEL DENNETTI 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.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.
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Cost is always an object – the second law of thermodynamics sees to that.
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A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library.
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The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.
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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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YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
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What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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Words are memes that can be pronounced.
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The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
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Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
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Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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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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I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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AI makes philosophy honest.
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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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