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22 quotes by Daniel Dennett

Daniel Clement Dennett III (born March 28, 1942) is an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. He is currently the Co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and a University Professor at Tufts...
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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... →

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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... →

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A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

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The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task... →

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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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Some cultural phenomena bear a striking resemblance to the cells of cell biology, actively preserving themselves in their social environments... →

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I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply... →

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Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.

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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

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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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The mind is the effect, not the cause.

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In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may look as parochial as the horizon Newton had to... →

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I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being... →

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