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The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely un...

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In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage ...

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In most sciences, there are few findings more prized than a counterintuitive result. It shows someth...

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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...

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The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cl...

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A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lac...

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We adore babies because they're so cute. And, of course, we are amused by jokes because they are fun...

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The earth has grown a nervous system, and it's us.

Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery. A mystery is a phenomenon that people ...

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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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Daniel Dennett

Philosopher

Born: 1942-03-28

Died: N/A

Daniel Clement Dennett III (March 28, 1942 – April 19, 2024) was an American atheist philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centered on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology.More