Damien Broderick famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If you build a snazzy alife sim ... you'd be a kind of bridging `first cause', and might even have the power to intervene in their lives - even obliterate their entire experienced cosmos - but that wouldn't make you a god in any interesting sense. Gods are ontologically distinct from creatures, or they're not worth the paper they're written on.
-- Damien Broderick
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I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a strong mind, an interesting mind, a twisted mind, and also someone that can make me smile.
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Foxes was a movie that didn't do a lot of business but it didn't do too badly critically and eventually they offered me other things. The interesting thing was that next I tried a film called Star Man, which Michael Douglas was producing.
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A change in language can transform our appreciation of the cosmos.
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Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.
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The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths / of exquisite interrelationships / of the awesome machinery of nature
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.
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We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.
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I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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