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The earth has grown a nervous system, and it's us.
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Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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We often learn more from bold mistakes than from cautious equivocation.
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Cost is always an object - the second law of thermodynamics sees to that
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Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
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But I also can't prove that mushrooms could not be intergalactic spaceships spying on us.
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The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.
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Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
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No matter how smart you are, you're smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.
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The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.
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People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.
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If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.
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A prosthetically enhanced imagination is still liable to failure, especially if it is not used with sufficient rigor.
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We really have to think of reasoning the way we think of romance, it takes two to tango. There has to be a communication.
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Animals are not just herbivores or carnivores. They are, in the nice coinage of the psychologist George Miller, informavores.
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Go ahead and believe in God, if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.
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A philosopher is someone who says, "We know it's possible in practice; we're trying to work out if it's possible in principle!"
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I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics.
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If the best the roboticists can hope for is the creation of some crude, cheesy, second-rate, artificial consciousness, they still win.
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Every human mind you've ever looked at … is a product not just of natural selection but of cultural redesign of enormous proportions.
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Experience teaches... that there is no such thing as a thought experiment so clearly presented that no philosopher can misinterpret it...
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Sometimes you don't just want to risk making mistakes; you actually want to make them - if only to give you something clear and detailed to fix.
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Thanks to technology, what almost anybody can do has been multiplied a thousandfold, and our moral understanding about what we ought to do hasn't kept pace.
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Any assortment of objects, especially "sticky" objects like molecules, randomly stirred for long enough will give rise to every conceivable possible combination.
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In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing has so much as a function; there was no teleology in the world at all.
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Minds are in limited supply, and each mind has a limited capacity for memes, and hence there is considerable competition among memes for entry in as many minds as possible.
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We need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves had at their age. It is scary, but the alternative is worse.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work—that goes on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Born:
March 28, 1942
Died:
April 19, 2024
(aged 82)
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