People Are Afraid Of Being More Ignorant

The Task Of The Mind Is To Produce Future, As The Poet Paul Valery Once Put It. A Mind Is Fundamentally An Anticipator, An Expectation-generator. It Mines The Present For Clues, Which It Refines With The Help Of The Materials It Has Saved From The Past, Turning Them Into Anticipations Of The Future. And Then It Acts, Rationally, On The Basis Of Those Hard-won Anticipations.

There Are No Forces On This Planet More Dangerous To All Of Us Than The Fanaticisms Of Fundamentalism.

Are Zombies Possible? They're Not Just Possible, They're Actual. We're All Zombies. Nobody Is Conscious — Not In The Systematically Mysterious Way That Supports Such Doctrines As Epiphenomenalism. *it Would Be An Act Of Desperate Intellectual Dishonesty To Quote This Assertion Out Of Context!

The Mind Is The Effect, Not The Cause.

In The Beginning, There Were No Reasons; There Were Only Causes. Nothing Had A Purpose, Nothing Has So Much As A Function; There Was No Teleology In The World At All.