Episode 59: Tumors All the Way Down (With Sam Harris)
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2014
⏱️ 152 minutes
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Summary
Bestselling author and friend of the podcast Sam Harris joins Tamler and Dave for a marathon podcast. (Seriously, pack two pairs of astronaut diapers for this one). We talk about the costs and benefits of religion, dropping acid in India, and the illusory nature of (a certain kind of) free will. Then we go at it on blame, moral responsibility, hatred, guilt, retribution, and vengeance. Sam thinks these are antiquated responses based on a belief in spooky metaphysics, Tamler thinks they are important components of human morality, and Dave just wants everyone to get along and be reasonable (like that nice Kant fellow).
Time markers (roughly)
0:00-47:00 Intro and costs and benefits of religion
47:00-77:30 Drugs, the self, free will
77:30-- Blame, guilt, vengeance, moral responsibility, desert.
Links
- Sam Harris [samharris.org]
- Waking Up: A guide to spirituality without religion by Sam Harris [amazon.com affiliate link]
- Daniel Dennett reviews "Free Will" by Sam Harris [naturalism.org]
- Sam Harris responds to Dennett's Review of "Free Will" [samharris.org]
Special Guest: Sam Harris.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro, |
| 0:06.5 | having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics. |
| 0:10.0 | Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of loud to say, and knowing |
| 0:14.7 | my dad some very inappropriate jokes. |
| 0:17.5 | You sit down with a panel in chimpanzees and a bucket of crack and come up with that |
| 0:21.7 | one. |
| 0:30.0 | Who are you? |
| 0:31.0 | Who are you? |
| 0:32.0 | I'm very bad men. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm a very good man. |
| 0:34.0 | Good man. |
| 0:35.0 | Good man. |
| 0:36.0 | Good... |
| 0:49.8 | The more brains you have. |
| 1:00.9 | Stupid racers. |
| 1:04.1 | I'm a very good man. |
| 1:06.9 | Just a very bad wizard. |
| 1:09.8 | Welcome to very bad wizards. |
| 1:11.0 | I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. |
| 1:14.0 | Dave, you thought you could take shots at Sam Harris from a safe distance. |
| 1:18.8 | Now it's time to pay the paper. |
| 1:21.1 | Are you scared? |
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