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Daniel Dennett
American
Philosopher
Born:
Mar 28
,
1942
Biology
Good
Long
People
Science
Think
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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
Daniel Dennett
Happiness
Life
You
Important
Secret
Find
Something
More
Than
The Secret Of
Your
Dedicate
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
Good
Day
Will
Big
Doubt
Settle
Elude
Our
No Doubt
Horizon
Parochial
Had
Look
Big Bang
Answers
Still
His
Years
Questions
Bang
Current
May
Us
Newton
Roughly
Whose
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
Good
Design
Biology
Broad
Range
Apt
Evolution
Independently
Tricks
Emerge
Similar
Highly
Environments
Call
Known
Wherever
Again
Successful
Designs
Phenomenon
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
Phones
Internet
Become
Every
Way
Evolve
Must
Religious
Selective
Altered
Mobile
Mobile Phones
Revolutionary
Scramble
Organisation
Landscape
Now
Extinct
Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.
Daniel Dennett
Freedom
Illusion
Other
Distinct
Objective
Only
Conditions
Human
Human Freedom
Us
Found
Species
Biological
Phenomenon
Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
Daniel Dennett
Words
Word
Language
Single
Easier
Evolution
Genealogy
Trace
Single Word
Than
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
Culture
Natural
Result
Biology
Our
Minds
Evolving
About
Gene
Selection
Genes
Nor
Centrist
Natural Selection
Fast
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.
Daniel Dennett
Future
Good
History
Science
Mind
Will
Thought
Insist
Long
Every
Thinking
Ways
Machines
Has-Been
Darwinian
Comprehend
Triumph
Mysterious
Mere
Matched
Still
Been
Expect
Human
The History Of
After
Human Mind
Measure
Who
Works
Human Thought
Thinkers
Resistance
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