631 - Consciousness vs Morality with Sam Harris

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4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Sam Harris, author, Neuroscientist, and the host of the Making Sense Podcast came back on to talk about his new book, Making Sense: Conversations on Consciousness, Morality, and the Future of Humanity. We talked about racism, consciousness versus morality and how do you define morality. What is the baseline for human morality! He also recounted his encounter with Ben Affleck! I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook Linkedin

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.8	This is the James Altiger Show.
0:12.8	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:16.4	Such a smart guest Sam Harris, one of the smartest guests I've had on is this is third time
0:23.1	on and we were talking about his book, Making Sense, Conversations on Consciousness,
0:29.4	Morality and the Future of Humanity.
0:31.7	And we touched on all those topics, both the good, the bad and the ugly of society's morality,
0:39.1	our views on consciousness and the future of humanity where we're going both culturally
0:44.0	and scientifically.
0:45.7	But to start off this podcast, I knew Sam is a smart guy and I wanted to ask him for a
0:51.2	bit of advice.
0:52.2	I was going through something that day and he helped me out and here's the podcast.
0:59.4	So I have once again Sam Harris on the podcast.
1:07.9	He just wrote a new book called Making Sense and it's basically his best conversations
1:14.6	from his podcast, which are completely fascinating and many of these conversations have blown
1:20.8	my mind.
1:21.8	But also Sam, first off, congratulations on putting the book out.
1:25.3	Oh yeah, thank you.
1:26.3	Happy to be here James.
1:27.3	Nice to talk to you again.
1:28.7	I was amazed too by the accolades on the back.
1:32.1	You have Rick Girveyes, Andrew Yang, Richard Dawkins, Bill Marr.
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