#115 — Sam Harris, Lawrence Krauss, and Matt Dillahunty (1)

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🗓️ 29 January 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Sam Harris speaks with Lawrence Krauss and Matt Dillahunty about the threat of nuclear war, Christian support for Trump, science and a universal conception of morality, the role of intuition in science, the primacy of consciousness, the nature of time, free will, the self, meditation, and other topics.

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0:00.0	You've heard me, the Lawrence Krause before on the podcast, Lawrence is a physicist who
0:21.0	will be familiar to most of you.
0:23.0	And Matt Del Huntee has moderated a couple of discussions I had with Richard Dawkins.
0:28.9	And you've heard him here as well.
0:30.1	So without more introduction, I'll just say we get into several interesting topics here.
0:36.2	We talk about nuclear war and Christian support for Trump.
0:41.2	Trump does not come up much.
0:42.9	Many of you will be happy to know.
0:44.8	We talk about science and a universal conception of morality.
0:49.4	We talk about the role of intuition in science, the primacy of consciousness as a fact,
0:56.8	the nature of time, free will, the illusion of the self.
1:02.4	Lawrence does not agree that it's an illusion.
1:05.2	We may have to cover that topic again.
1:08.0	And there's a few more topics here.
1:09.9	In any case, it was a fun event.
1:11.7	It was great to meet so many of you afterwards.
1:14.3	These particular events are always followed by book signings.
1:16.8	So the event itself was just an hour and a half.
1:20.6	But the book signing wants it going for two hours or so.
1:25.7	And that really is the chance to say hi.
1:28.7	So if you enjoy this conversation, there will be two others with the same participants
1:33.6	in Chicago and Phoenix coming up.
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