Daniel Dennett Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Daniel Dennett quotes and sayings page 2 (philosopher). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 22 we have.
“Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.”
“Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.”
“A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.'”
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