A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.

Consciousness is cerebral celebrity--nothing more and nothing less. Those contents are conscious that persevere, that monopolize resources long enough to achieve certain typical and "symptomatic" effects--on memory, on the control of behavior and so forth.

Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.

I am confident that those who believe in belief are wrong. That is, we no more need to preserve the myth of God in order to preserve a just and stable society than we needed to cling to the Gold Standard to keep our currency sound. It was a useful crutch, but we've outgrown it. Denmark, according to a recent study, is the sanest, healthiest, happiest, most crime-free nation in the world, and by and large the Danes simply ignore the God issue. We should certainly hope that those who believe in belief are wrong, because belief is waning fast, and the props are beginning to buckle.

Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

AI makes philosophy honest

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.