Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
Daniel DennettIn the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.
Daniel DennettIf the concept of consciousness were to fall to science, what would happen to our sense of moral agency and free will? If conscious experience were reduced somehow to mere matter in motion, what would happen to our appreciation of love and pain and dreams and joy? If conscious human beings were just animated material objects, how could anything we do to them be right or wrong?
Daniel Dennett