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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.

~Daniel Dennett

Topics: Celebrate Courage Ever Free Free Society Hardly Heroes Imagined In The Past Level Need Our Particular Past Recover Risk Sake Short Society Tolerate

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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.'

~Daniel Dennett

Topics: Again Apt Biology Broad Call Design Designs Emerge Environments Evolution Good Highly Independently Known Phenomenon Range Similar Successful Tricks Wherever

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

~Daniel Dennett

Topics: Because Darwin Direction Idea Makes Natural Natural Selection People Selection Tradition Uncomfortable

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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 just places where things happen in the universe.

~Daniel Dennett

Topics: Afraid Authors Being Creators Darwinian Happen Just Many Own People Places Right Role Scheme Terribly Things Things Happen Think Universe Where I Think

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There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).

~Daniel Dennett

Topics: Action Consciousness Content Course Effects Hence Independent Memory Reality Subsequent Various Vehicles

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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.

~Daniel Dennett

Topics: About Biology Culture Evolving Fast Gene Genes Minds Natural Natural Selection Nor Our Result Selection

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Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.

~Daniel Dennett

Topics: Easier Evolution Language Single Single Word Than Trace Word Words

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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.

~Daniel Dennett

Topics: Able Believe Confirm Date Explanation Find Further Get Good Idea Much Never No Reason Origin Press Question Reason See Should Than Though Ultimate Universe Used I See

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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 settle for in his day, but no doubt there will still be good questions whose answers elude us.

~Daniel Dennett

Topics: Answers Bang Big Big Bang Current Day Doubt Elude Good Had His Horizon Look May Newton No Doubt Our Questions Roughly Settle Still Us Whose Will Years

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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.

~Daniel Dennett

Topics: Altered Become Every Evolve Extinct Internet Landscape Mobile Mobile Phones Must Now Organisation Phones Religious Revolutionary Scramble Selective Way

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Philosopher

Born: March 28th, 1942

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