#185 – Sam Harris: Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning

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4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2021

⏱️ 204 minutes

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0:00.0	The following is a conversation with Sam Harris, one of the most influential and pioneering
0:04.5	thinkers of our time.
0:06.2	He is the host of the Making Sense Podcast and the author of many seminal books on human
0:10.8	nature and the human mind, including the end of faith, the moral landscape, lying, free
0:16.7	will, and waking up.
0:18.6	He also has a meditation app called Waking Up that I've been using to guide my own meditation.
0:24.9	Quick mention of our sponsors.
0:27.2	Social instruments, bellcampo, athletic greens, and linoid.
0:31.6	Check them out in the description to support this podcast.
0:34.9	As a side note, let me say that Sam has been an inspiration to me as he has been for
0:40.0	many many people, first from his writing, then his early debates, maybe 13-14 years ago
0:46.4	on the subject of faith, his conversations with Christopher Hitchens, and since 2013, his
0:53.1	podcast.
0:54.1	I didn't always agree with all of his ideas, but I was always drawn to the care and depth
0:59.6	of the way he explored those ideas.
1:02.0	The calm and clarity amid the storm of difficult at times controversial discourse.
1:07.6	I really can't express in words how much it meant to me that he, Sam Harris, someone
1:13.0	who I've listened to for many hundreds of hours would write a kind email to me saying
1:18.1	he enjoyed this podcast and more that he thought I had a unique voice that added something
1:24.4	to this world.
1:25.4	Whether it's true or not, it made me feel special and truly grateful to be able to do this
1:30.3	thing and motivated me to work my ass off to live up to those words.
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