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The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it! ↗

— Daniel Dennett

#brain #cling #coral #eats #finds

There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory). ↗

— Daniel Dennett

#consciousness #content #course #effects #hence

Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons. ↗

— Dorothy Denning

#attack #complex #controlling #damage #desired

I don't really think about doing something kind, I think there's just a way to conduct your daily life with compassion to other people. ↗

— Kat Dennings

#compassion #conduct #daily #daily life #doing

I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious. ↗

— Kat Dennings

#even #forest #i #kid #living

I've never been in jeopardy, but being an actor is a pretty shady place to be because you never know where your next job is. ↗

— Kat Dennings

#because #been #being #i #jeopardy

I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot. ↗

— Nigel Dennis

#art #had #i #lot #passion

Now, I'm the only living member of that group. There was the six of us originally and they're now all gone. ↗

— Martin Denny

#group #i #living #member #now

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it. ↗

— Andrew Denton

#art #earth #even #greater #literature

I've become a much more serious young insect. ↗

— Andrew Denton

#i #insect #more #much #serious