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• Si la historia de la resistencia al pensamiento darwinista es una buena medida, podemos esperar que en el futuro, mucho después de que cada triunfo del pensamiento humano haya sido igualado o superado por "meras máquinas", todavía habrá pensadores que insistan en que la mente humana funciona de formas misteriosas que ninguna ciencia puede comprender.

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  Thinking, Long, Mind

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• Algunos de los mayores y más revolucionarios avances de la ciencia han tenido su expresión inicial en términos atractivamente modestos, sin fanfarrias.

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  Expression, Revolutionary, Given

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• In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.

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  Hero, Past, Risk

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• I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.

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  Religious, Thinking, Taught Us

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• Reasons for declaring belief is not are not the same as reasons for believing in god.

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  Believe, Religion, Belief

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• Las palabras tienen una genealogía y es más fácil rastrear la evolución de una sola palabra que la de una lengua.

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  Evolution, Language, Genealogy

  "Daniel Dennett: 'I don't like theory of mind' - interview". Interview With Carole Jahme, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2013.

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• The theoretical fruits of deliberate oversimplification through idealization are not to be denied... Reality in all its messy particularity is too complicated to theorize about, taken straight. The issue is, rather (since every idealization is a strategic choice), which idealizations might really shed some light... which will just land us... diverting fairy tales.

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  Taken, Reality, Land

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life”, p.497, Simon and Schuster

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• Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.

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  Mind, Culture, Biology

  "Daniel Dennett: 'I don't like theory of mind'". Interview with Carole Jahme, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2013.

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• 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.'

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  Successful, Design, Evolution

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• No existe una realidad de la conciencia independiente de los efectos de los diversos vehículos de contenido sobre la acción posterior (y por tanto, por supuesto, sobre la memoria).

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  Recuerdos, Independiente, Realidad

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• How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound?

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  Music, Reading, Imagination

  Daniel C. Dennett (2017). “Consciousness Explained”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• An inert historical fact is any fact about a perfectly ordinary arrangement of matter in the world at some point in the past that is no longer discernible, a fact that has left no footprints at all in the world today.

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  Past, Historical, Ordinary

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking”, p.378, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Some cultural phenomena bear a striking resemblance to the cells of cell biology, actively preserving themselves in their social environments, finding the nutrients they need and fending off the causes of their dissolution.

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  Cells, Bears, Needs

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