Steve Stewart-Williams Short Quotes

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When you contemplate the universe, part of the universe becomes conscious of itself.

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From a comparative perspective, we are a relatively monomorphic mammal, with relatively monomorphic minds.

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Even in a pointless universe, pointless happiness and pleasures are surely preferable to pointless suffering.

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To the extent that we accept this view, we effectively mistake ourselves for highly dimorphic animals such as peacocks or deer.

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It may be the fate of the universe to spend an eternity in darkness, save one brief flash of self-awareness in the middle of nowhere.

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To a hypothetical alien with a vastly superior intellect to our own, human minds would be classed as intermediate forms between the mindless and the fully minded.

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One could even argue that our creative endeavours and achievements and small acts of kindness are all the more impressive against the backdrop of a purposeless universe.

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Some people worry that to say we are nothing but matter is to deny that we think or feel. It's not. The strange fact is that, when suitably arranged, matter thinks and feels.

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A Ku Klux Klan member would be mortified to learn that he was actually a Black man. Many people's reaction to learning that they are actually animals, or actually apes, is the same.

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It is therefore a curious fact that our dominant mating system is more like the typical mating system of birds than that of most mammals, including our nearest relatives, the Great Apes.

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If religion doesn't make people good, why do people think that it does? Simple: Because religion teaches that it makes people good. It's part of its sales pitch. But it's also quite possibly untrue.

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