3 December 2020 Daniel Dennett The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
3 December 2020 Daniel Dennett 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.’
3 December 2020 Daniel Dennett 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.