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Great discussion.

The Christian nationalists are ramping up their cultural war but I think their allies, the MAGA advocates, are going to lose the election in November. Dennett sounds like the most pragmatic of the Four Horsemen. He doesn’t want to smash religion.

It hurts to watch it. Dan cannot bring up any reasonable arguments against religion. He struggles hard, without success. He is on the defensive side the entire time. When I heard of him thought he could speak better than this, but he's no different from Dawkins. They both are unable to formulate convincing logic against religion. And I'm saying this as a non believer. Also what's with him going occasionally to church or singing carols? This is hipocrcy 101. In this ineterview he rather tries to convince him self that he's an atheist than the interviewer.

How to write books that will never be read by religious people

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Rest in Peace Dan, I'll never forget the impact you've made on my life

Great man

Quran 52:35 were they created by nothing, or were they the creators [of themselves]? Quran 52:36 Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Rather, they are not certain. Quran 52:41 Or have they [knowledge of] the unseen, so they write [it] down? Quran 41:53 We will show them Our signs in the horizons and within themselves until it becomes clear to them that it is the truth. But is it not sufficient concerning your Lord that He is, over all things, a Witness? Quran 41:51 And when We bestow favor upon man, he turns away and distances himself; but when evil touches him, then he is full of extensive supplication. Quran 41:54 Unquestionably, they are in doubt about the meeting with their Lord. Unquestionably He is, of all things, encompassing. Quran 30:8 Do they not contemplate within themselves? Allah has not created the heavens and the earth and what is between them except in truth and for a specified term. And indeed, many of the people, in [the matter of] the meeting with their Lord, are disbelievers. Quran 8:22 Indeed, the worst of living creatures in the sight of Allah are the deaf and dumb who do not use reason.

If Daniel Dennet was at his best it's because Bill Moyers was the interviewer. Bill always seems earnest in his quest for knowledge and understanding

The political Right in the United States needs to hear point 1. The political Left in the United States needs to hear point 2.

34:57 thats a good ass point, i've been questioning my faith for a minute, but holy shit...

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25:35 - what do we DO? Connected to not thinking.

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So civil! Though he probably shouldn't have said questionably true things about intelligent people of faith. I think that its hard for him to know what he claimed about them. Only 2 analogies I heard and neither was especially bad. The sugar one he could have probably done without. "Sally is always right" was perfect, short and obvious. And the host was marvelous, a guy that actually read the book and went through it with pen and highlighter. It was clear that he was asking questions for the benefit of the audience a good portion of the time, since he would have already read Dennett's answer.

Im almost done with this video I hope they talk about pychidelics and religion

great

I am like god I have no god !

Too many words! Religion is simply a communicable mental illness. Unfortunately, no effective vaccine available yet, but I hear that Dennettites are at work!

When you are threatened with eternal torture if you can’t bring yourself to believe the unbelievable the mind enters a state of cognitive dissonance. When a person succumbs to that dissonance by giving in to those unbelievable ideas they actually cause a very important area of the brain to shut down. That part of the brain is involved with critical thinking. In other words, if you accept the tenets of Christianity, then you will believe anything, and that is dangerous.

The fundamental question is whether life is worth living and suicide continuously awaits our answer. Upon the pain of death or insanity, we have to answer. Real worth has to connect with real purpose under a real design/plan and that requires a Creator. The Christian answer is that we are adopted sons and daughters of God, like apples that don't fall far from the tree. The atheist answer is that praise, both self praise and praise from others, is evidence of worth.

These concepts are incompatible with Moyers worldview. The idea of your fundamental reason for being as grounded in the complex interactions of social evolutionary forces, at first, present the world in stark contrast.

Such longing arises from an evolutionary cognitive impulse in the human mind that we, at present, only vaguely understand.

When people do good things, they paint their good deeds with the brush of Christianity, when in fact their deeds have little to do with their beliefs. They give credit to an imaginary being, simply because that's what they have been indoctrinated to do, thinking that's what they are supposed to do. They haven't taken the time to realize they would have done the same thing in the same circumstance even if no deity existed.

RE: 8:14: Religion began when the first fool met the first con man.

The human need for continuity, for ceremony, for ritual, for camaraderie, and for reason is deep and profound. Religion answers all of these necessities. The Logic of Religion's foundation, a being or beings who are deeply interested in your personal life and moral character cannot be sustained.

How about a respectful dialogue without mocking

But Tony Blair is still free

yeah no one calls themselves a bright it didnt catch on

Didn't know Denett was this brilliant. The articulation of ideas was just superb: "This is a bad pun. This isn't something they all believe in ." What do they believe in ? "They believe in belief. They believe that belief in god is so important that you should never think of abandoning it even if it meant changing the meaning of god so much that it is unrecognizable to everyone else"

This video should be listened to and considered by all in High School and anyone who really sees themselves as being an "Adult".

I'm an Atheist my wife's an Atheist, my sons are Atheist and we all LOVE CHRISTMAS! If you just added up the amount of money we spend on gifts you would have to shake your head. We also tried our best for the longest time to keep our kids from discovering that Santa Claus was a real treat. Our Atheist family embrace Christmas to the extent that makes everyone think that we are Christians. Even our lifestyle is so straight with our participation with the schools that our kids went to and our involvement and the number of friends we collected from our kids school associations and all the volunteer work which was fantastic & rewarding. We look so normal everyone thinks we are Christians. We are not Christians but we sure the heck are humanist and we would give you that impression if all you did was observe our lifestyle.

I would like to thank Steve Jobs for this smartphone I'm holding.

42:00 Religions don't deal in love(!). They deal in CONTROL, through fear and repression.

Yes teach them! “What are they afraid of?” ...indeed.

Common sense is a wonderful thing.

Evolution = mutation that is or was environmentally advantageous

An educated populace is THE cornerstone of democracy. When education fails, so does democracy, it devolves into the whim of the day driven by the ad men of religion, politics, industry, and business. Then it collapses.

48:40 You're an atheist for all religions except one, I'm just an atheist for all of them. Brilliant.

20:40 The sugar/saccharin analogy for God. If God is sugar then we have evolved with a God shaped hole inside. If Saccharin, then we have evolved with a paternal/all powerful/magical person shaped hole. (think demi-god-like status for tribal leaders/witchdoctors/kings like Pharaoh, Leaders like Moses the Magician, Hitler, Mao, Kim Dynasty, etc). and religions then invented as a way to take that yearning for a great leader, create a God, introducing him as the greatest king of all, with powers outside this world as well as in, and then use that God as a puppet who directs the people according to the wishes of the state or principality. I don't think it matters to be honest. But one thing I do know...artificial sweetener is disgusting..

The brain is an area of neurophysiology activity. Neurophysiology activity consists of electrochemical reaction. Thus at any given time, the brain state is defined by a subset of electrochemical reactions, derived from a large set of possible reactions. Consider the phenomenon of a. conscious thought. As at any given time the brain physical state consists of a collection of electrochemical reactions (events), it can be inferred that they are collectively responsible for the conscious thought. This means that at least in part, simultaneous events are responsible for thought. In other words, thought creates a connection between simultaneous events. This is in contradiction to the consequences of special relativity, which states that the fastest connection between events is the speed of light and thus excludes the possibility of connection between simultaneous events. Consider the memorizing of, say, the value 5. This would necessarily involve more than 1 point in space as, say, if it is assumed a single electron records 5 by taking a particular potential. Then it by itself cannot define (or know) 5, as its magnitude would be defined only with respect to another datum or event defined as a unit potential, thus involving at least 2 simultaneous events. Consider the experience of vision. While we focus our attention on an object of vision, we are still aware of a background and, thus, a whole collection of events. This would mean at least an equal collection of physical events in the brain are involved. Take the experience of listening to music. It would mean being aware of what went before. Like vision, it would probably mean that while our attention at any given time is focused at that point in time, it is aware of what went before and what is to follow. In other words, it spans the time axis. Many great composers have stated that they are able to hear their whole composition. Thus their acoustic experience is probably like the average person's visual experience. While focusing at a particular point in time of their composition, they are nevertheless aware of what went before and what is to come. The rest of the composition is like the background of a visual experience. Experiencing the composition in this way, they are able to traverse it in a similar fashion to which a painting is observed. In this sense, an average person in comparison can be seen as having tunnel hearing (like tunnel vision) when it comes to music, thus making it very difficult for him or her to reproduce or create new music. It can be seen that consciousness is a 4-D phenomenon. If it is a physically explainable phenomenon, such an explanation would involve EPR type effects and as such physical explanations at a quantum level will be involved. philpapers.org/rec/DESCAS

Just think about every powerful person: a politician, a president, even a dictator. And imagine their minds being as Daniel Dennet's. The Earth would be a much better place.

Horsemen of apocalypses aren't usually this nice. I disagree with a few points: one at around 43 minutes is where he says that secularists don't posit over-confident, simple answers to complicated problems. We repeat all manner of truisms: the work ethic; economic growth; general expansion of virtually everything in the human sphere, more people, cities, roads, products; that we behave as rational agents; the trickle-down effect; meritocracy is good; free will; just-deserts responsibility...etc., etc. Unfortunately, our politics amounts mostly to competitive assertion of the capability to actualize these tenets, or even just empty virtue-signaling with respect to them. There's almost no critical thinking about them, certainly in the mainstream media.

That he still has a strong desire to thank something for the universe undermines his atheism.

Not many animals mourne their love ones. I witnessed directly crow do it a few times. However, a few hours later, i didn't see the crows come back to the dead body. Elephants seems to recognize the bones of love ones. It is difficult to find any elephant who don't know every other over 70 years life.

Dennett is such a graceful and patient bright. Moyers is such a comparative moron.

"where does such longing arise?" - the same place god dwells, Bill, - in your mind