Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.

I'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.

To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single theory of how to decide what to believe.

Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

Once we have taken the backward step to an abstract view of our whole system of beliefs, evidence, and justification, and seen that it works only, despite its pretensions, by taking the world largely for granted, we are not in a position to contrast all these appearances with an alternative reality. We cannot shed our ordinary responses, and if we could it would leave us with no means of conceiving a reality of any kind.

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

Perhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.