Daniel Dennett Quotes

This is a collection of quotes by Daniel Dennett.



 

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A living thing must capture enough energy and materials, and fend off its own destruction long enough to construct a good enough replica of itself.
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Both Darwin and Turing claim to have discovered something truly unsettling to a human mind — competence without comprehension.
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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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Evolution is a process that depends on amplifying things that almost never happen.
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Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
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If I couldn't talk to myself, I'd have no way of knowing what I was thinking.
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If nobody cares, then it doesn't matter what happens to flowers.
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In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing had so much as a function; there was no teleology in the world at all.
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The famous four F's (fight, flee, feed, or mate)
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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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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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There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
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There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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There's simply no polite way to tell people they've dedicated their lives to an illusion.
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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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What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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YES we have a soul but it's made of lots of tiny robots.
Daniel Dennett


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