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For them, the Haldane–Dawkins argument is valid: the world is stranger than they can conceive.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
David Hume,
Jonah Lehrer • How We Decide
very sophisticated but non-conscious algorithm. This argument, of course, can be applied to humans too.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
creationists ask, rhetorically, “where does all the information in the DNA come from?” and Darwin’s answer is simple: it comes from the gradual, purposeless, nonmiraculous transformation of noise into signal, over billions of years.
Daniel C Dennett • From Bacteria to Bach and Back
“The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.”12
Marcelo Gleiser • The Dawn of a Mindful Universe: A Manifesto for Humanity's Future
Daniel C. Dennett, Widely Read and Fiercely Debated Philosopher, Dies at 82
Jonathan Kandellnytimes.com
it doesn’t seem that computers are about to gain consciousness,
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
Daniel Todd Gilbert • Stumbling on Happiness
The heart of the argument is that single-particle interference phenomena unequivocally rule out the possibility that the tangible universe around us is all that exists.