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Daniel Dennett Quotes
"Luck is mere statistical flukes."
"Belief in free will is ubiquitous but problematic."
"Human freedom is an artifact of the organization of human society. "
"Science enhances the moral environment."
"The human mind is something everyone should be able to understand."
"In evolution, you can’t keep what you believe is best for you; you must keep what goes and reliably gets reproduced."
"The brain is just a great big bag of tricks."
"Understanding itself is a dynamic and context-dependent process."
"If you want to understand consciousness, you have to admit that that conscious experience is always something extra."
"The best way to get information from people is to make them think you already know it"
"Mind is the last frontier."
"We are organisms that have evolved mechanisms for learning how to respond to our environments in ways that tend to increase our fitness"
"There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear."
"The secret of happiness is to find something more important than you and dedicate your life to it"
"A scholar is just a library's way of making another library."
"A philosopher is someone who won't take your watch away to tell you what time it is"
"The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them—especially not from yourself."
"There's simply no polite way to tell people they've dedicated their lives to an illusion"
