Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast.

This is Sam Harris.

Okay.

Do I have housekeeping today?

I don't think so.

I am speaking with Richard Dawkins.

Richard really needs no introduction on this podcast, but please note that he has a new

book out titled Outgrowing God, A Beginner's Guide.

In this conversation, we mostly take your questions and we start by discussing the strangeness

of the Jean's Eye view of the world.

We then move on to the limits of Darwinian thinking when applied to human life.

We talk about his concept of the extended phenotype and mometics.

We look at how ideologies act as meme complexes.

We talk about whether consciousness might be an epiphenomenon and therefore might not

have been evolved under selective pressure.

Then we talk about psychedelics and meditation.

I actually lead Richard in a guided meditation.

In the effects of that, you can hear for yourself and I'll have something more to say in my

afterward.

So now, without further delay, I bring you Richard Dawkins.

Be you still, be you still trembling heart.

Remember the wisdom out of the old days.

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