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Quotes from Freedom Evolves — Daniel Dennett

1942–2024 United States

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We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be "informavores," epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world.

Freedom Evolves (2003)

..the point of a randomizing device like a coin flip, [is] to make the result uncontrollable by making it sensitive to so many variables that no feasible, finite list of conditions can be singled out as the cause.

Freedom Evolves (2003)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Daniel Dennett (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.