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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Makes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 just places where things happen in the universe.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
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, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!
- Independent
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
- Darwin
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- Nov 07, 2020
We adore babies because they're so cute. And, of course, we are amused by jokes because they are funny. This is all backwards. It is. And Darwin shows us why.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.
- Desert
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- Nov 07, 2020
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.
- Genealogy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should get used to the idea that we'll probably never be able to find - and confirm - a good explanation of the ultimate origin of the universe, though I see no reason to believe that we can't press much further on this question than we have managed to date.
- Elude
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 settle for in his day, but no doubt there will still be good questions whose answers elude us.
- Biology
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some cultural phenomena bear a striking resemblance to the cells of cell biology, actively preserving themselves in their social environments, finding the nutrients they need and fending off the causes of their dissolution.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.'
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.
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- Nov 07, 2020