Pretty impressive evidence showing that what doesn’t kill humans tends to make them stronger 💪🏼 nature.com/articles/s4158…

10 brilliant insights from the late Daniel Dennett, by Dan Falk nautil.us/10-brilliant-i…

(Read the story to see Dennett expand on these points)

1. The mind is a “user-illusion” that we mistake for reality
2. Free will is a fantasy, but a welcome one
3. Consciousness runs on…

I'm always so envious when I meet people who haven't read any Wodehouse novels, because it means they have them all to enjoy for the first time. That seems the ultimate accolade for a writer of fiction: when the people who've read your books envy those who haven't.

Honestly I’m glad I’m not a student at a college where students are forcibly preventing their classmates from entering certain areas of campus, whatever the cause.

I’m glad because my mammalian instinct would be to test how strong their “human chain” is. God, it would be so on.

I love the word “antiquity.” Love what it means, love the way it sounds. Just a banger of a term.

Important bit from a great thread

What is this dude’s life?

Honestly, I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't use phonics now. Just excellent.

I prefer to think it is civilized people who can understand with good humor what it is to raise young children, and who don’t expect parents to become tyrants to enforce compliance.

One of my favorite Kant anecdotes

No, it hasn’t.

The origins of Internet commerce were pretty much what you'd expect

Don’t get your hopes up.

Happy 4/20 y’all nautil.us/the-psychology…

This is the best Dan Dennett photo

Oh lord, Dan Dennett has died. That's a huge loss to the intellectosphere. He ruffled lots of feathers and often divided opinion, but he was a phenomenal thinker and always worth listening to. And a fabulous writer.

I don’t know how we’ve gotten to this point, but it has come to this I’m afraid

Of all the keys on my keyboard, the one with the most faded-out symbol is the S key.

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The world is only getting…freakier