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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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Daniel Dennett

Daniel Dennett, born on March 28, 1942, is an American philosopher renowned for his work in cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and philosophy of the mind. His research spans various areas including consciousness, free will, and the philosophy of the mind. more

“If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend.”

Ifs Thinking Way Mind Humans Long Has Beens Stills Machines Mere Resistance Mysterious Triumph Human Mind Thinker Matched Human Thought Mysterious Ways

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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.”

Years Looks May Stills Bigs Answers Doubt Currents Be Good Settling No Doubt Horizon Bangs Newton Elude Good Questions Elude Us

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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.”

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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.”

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