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• De hecho, si te enfrentas a la perspectiva de correr a través de un campo abierto en el que los rayos van a ser un problema, estás mucho mejor si su momento y ubicación están determinados por algo, ya que entonces pueden ser predecibles por ti, y por lo tanto evitables. El determinismo es el amigo, no el enemigo, de aquellos a quienes no les gusta la inevitabilidad.

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  Running, May, Fields

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• Up till now, we can suppose, nervous systems solved the 'Now what do I do?' problem by a relatively simple balancing act between a strictly limited repertoire of actions - if not the famous four F's (fight, flee, feed, or mate), then a modest elaboration of them.

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  Fighting, Simple, Four

  "La conciencia explicada". Libro de Daniel Dennett, 1991.

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• Highly technical philosophical arguments of the sort many philosophers favor are absent here. That is because I have a prior problem to deal with. I have learned that arguments, no matter how watertight, often fall on deaf ears. I am myself the author of arguments that I consider rigorous and unanswerable but that are often not such much rebutted or even dismissed as simply ignored.

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  Fall, Philosophical, Atheism

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

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  Children, Islands, Empathy

  Daniel Dennett: "No me gusta la teoría de la mente". Entrevista con Carole Jahme, www.theguardian.com. 22 de marzo de 2013.

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• I have shown that those who deplore Artificial Intelligence are also those who deplore the evolutionary accounts of human mentality: if human minds are non-miraculous products of evolution, then they are, in the requisite sense, artifacts, and all their powers must have an ultimately mechanical explanation. We are descended from macros and made of macros, and nothing we can do is beyond the power of huge assemblies of macros.

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  Mind, Evolution, Assembly

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• Aunque tendemos a concebir las operaciones de la mente como unificadas y transparentes, en realidad son caóticas y opacas. No hay un jefe invisible en el cerebro, ni un significante central, ni un yo unitario al mando de nuestras actividades y expresiones. No hay ningún espectador interno de un teatro cartesiano en nuestras cabezas que aplauda la marcha de la conciencia por su escenario.

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  Yo, Jefe, Cerebro

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• Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.

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  Problem, Sometimes, Easier

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't myself need that role for God. My view is that creation itself, the universe itself, is the most wonderful thing deserving awe and respect. And that satisfies me as my substitute for God.

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  Views, Roles, Needs

  "Big Thinkers on Evolution". "NOVA", www.pbs.org. October 6, 2009.

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• Cost is always an object - the second law of thermodynamics sees to that

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  Law, Cost, Economics

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• As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.

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  Stupid, Worst Enemy, Self

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• Isn't it true that whatever isn't determined by our genes must be determined by our environment? What else is there? There's Nature and there's Nurture. Is there also some X, some further contributor to what we are? There's Chance. Luck. This extra ingredient is important but doesn't have to come from the quantum bowels of our atoms or from some distant star. It is all around us in the causeless coin-flipping of our noisy world, automatically filling in the gaps of specification left unfixed by our genes, and unfixed by salient causes in our environment.

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  Stars, Luck, Important

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• In all mammalian species that have so far been carefully studied, the rate at which their members engage in the killing of conspecifics is several thousand times greater than the highest homicide rate in any American city.

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  Cities, Killing, Members

  "La peligrosa idea de Darwin: La evolución y el sentido de la vida". Libro de Daniel Dennett, 1995.

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• Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.

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  Long, Imagination, Worry

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• Homunculi are bogeymen only if they duplicate entire the talents they are rung in to explain. If one can get a team or committee of relatively ignorant, narrow-minded, blind homunculi to produce the intelligent behaviour of the whole, this is progress.

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  Team, Intelligent, Ignorant

  "Brainstorms". Book by Daniel Dennett (p. 173), 1978.

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• The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of goodness - by setting to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come.

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  Religion, Thank God, Debt

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• If I were to give a prize for the single best idea anybody ever had, I'd give it to Darwin for the idea of natural selection - ahead of Newton, ahead of Einstein - because his idea unites the two most disparate features of our universe: the world of purposeless, meaningless matter and motion, particles jostling on the one side, and the world of meaning and purpose, design on the other.

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  Ideas, Two, Giving

  "Big Thinkers on Evolution". NOVA-PBS, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2009.

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• 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.

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  Elude Us, Years, Doubt

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• Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!

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  Thinking, Psychology, Religion

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.

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  Daughter, Children, People

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• Si lo mejor a lo que pueden aspirar los roboticistas es a la creación de una conciencia artificial tosca, cursi y de segunda categoría, siguen ganando.

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  Ganar, cursi, conciencia

  Daniel Clement Dennett (1998). "Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds", p.158, MIT Press

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• The point of asking questions is to find true answers; the point of measuring is to measure accurately; the point of making maps is to find your way to your destination... In short, the goal of truth goes without saying, in every human culture.

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  Truth, Asking Questions, Goal

  "Postmodernism and Truth". Daniel Dennett's speech at the World Congress of Philosophy in Boston, ase.tufts.edu. August 13, 1998.

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• We should get used to the idea that we'll probably never be able to find - and confirm - a good explanation of the ultimate origin of the universe, though I see no reason to believe that we can't press much further on this question than we have managed to date.

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  Believe, Ideas, Able

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• 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.

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  Thinking, People, Roles

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• ...but I also can't prove that mushrooms could not be intergalactic spaceships spying on us.

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  Mushrooms, Religion, Spaceships

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• Durante más de un siglo, la gente ha pensado a menudo que la conclusión que hay que sacar de la visión de Darwin es que el Homo sapiens, nuestra especie -y también somos simples animales, simples mamíferos-, que no hay nada moralmente especial en nosotros. Yo mismo no creo que esto se desprenda en absoluto de la visión de Darwin, pero sin duda es la opinión que se recibe en muchos círculos.

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  Animal, Thinking, Views

  "Big Thinkers on Evolution". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2009.

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