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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!

— Daniel Dennett Consciousness Explained (1991)

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Go ahead and believe in God, if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

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