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In other words, consciousness is “cerebral celebrity,” as the philosopher Daniel Dennett has described it, or “fame in the brain.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":48,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":49},{},[],{"id":68,"quote_text":69,"author_id":5,"source_id":56,"has_image":57,"author":70,"source":71,"quote_tag":72,"commentary":49},3137179,"The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":48,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":49},{},[],{"id":74,"quote_text":75,"author_id":5,"source_id":56,"has_image":57,"author":76,"source":77,"quote_tag":78,"commentary":49},3137173,"Dehaene marveled at the fact that mathematics is simultaneously a product of the human mind and a powerful instrument for discovering the laws by which the human mind operates.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":48,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":49},{},[],{"id":80,"quote_text":81,"author_id":5,"source_id":56,"has_image":57,"author":82,"source":83,"quote_tag":84,"commentary":49},3137165,"It was in the early Renaissance that the art of the joke was reborn, and the midwife was a man called Poggio.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":48,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":49},{},[],{"id":86,"quote_text":87,"author_id":5,"source_id":56,"has_image":57,"author":88,"source":89,"quote_tag":90,"commentary":49},3137156,"Bertrand Russell recounts in his autobiography that as an unhappy adolescent he frequently contemplated suicide. But he did not go through with it, he tells us, “because I wished to know more of mathematics.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":48,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":49},{},[],{"id":92,"quote_text":93,"author_id":5,"source_id":56,"has_image":57,"author":94,"source":95,"quote_tag":96,"commentary":49},3137147,"I find it hard to swallow the notion that the world is improved by extra suffering. And that goes for a lot of Christian doctrine. Jones commits a crime, so you expiate the evil by nailing Smith to a cross and it’s all better. – John Leslie.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":48,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":49},{},[],{"id":98,"quote_text":99,"author_id":5,"source_id":56,"has_image":57,"author":100,"source":101,"quote_tag":102,"commentary":49},3137140,"If by ‘God’ you have something definite in mind – a being that is loving, or jealous, or whatever – then you’re faced with the question of why God’s that way and not another way. And if you don’t have anything very definite in mind when you talk about ‘God’ being behind the existence of the universe, then why even use the word? So I think religion doesn’t help. It’s part of the human tragedy: we’re faced with a mystery we can’t understand – Steven Weinberg.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":48,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":49},{},[],{"id":104,"quote_text":105,"author_id":5,"source_id":56,"has_image":57,"author":106,"source":107,"quote_tag":108,"commentary":49},3137134,"Does mathematics carry its own ontological clout?",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":48,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":49},{},[],{"id":110,"quote_text":111,"author_id":5,"source_id":56,"has_image":57,"author":112,"source":113,"quote_tag":114,"commentary":49},3137125,"It has even been conjectured that the human mind plays a critical role in the self-causing mechanism. 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