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Michael Shermer Quotes

- Writer | September 8, 1954 -

We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization.

Michael Shermer

Principles Exploring Up Analysis

For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.

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Problems Number Smarter Than Large

The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out.

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Group True Reason Out Individual

In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.

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Page Google Brilliant Comparison Web

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

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Live Age Science Because Myths Our

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

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Historical Myth Fact Literary Plato

The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month.

Michael Shermer

Today Brain Body Born Month Atoms

Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body.

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Soul Body Will Beyond Existence

The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive.

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Acceptance Principal Position General

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

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Soul Death Evidence Either Does

Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.

Michael Shermer

Life Home Design Plan Earth Divine

We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.

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Eyes Think Brains Video Blank Our

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