We need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves had at their age. It is scary, but the alternative is worse.
DANIEL DENNETTNow 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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There’s no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) ‘Do you realize you’ve wasted your life?
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Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn’t admit it.
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Cost is always an object – the second law of thermodynamics sees to that.
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What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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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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Love is blind, as they say, and because love is blind, it often leads to tragedy: to conflicts in which one love is pitted against another love, and something has to give, with suffering guaranteed in any resolution.
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Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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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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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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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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True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps. Indeed, if you are religious, you don’t have to be crazy in the medically certifiable sense in order to do massively crazy things.
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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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AI makes philosophy honest.
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