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🗓️ 6 May 2021
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All 11 episodes available at AbsolutelyMental.com
In this new podcast series, the Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning actor, director, and writer Ricky Gervais phones his favorite smart friend, the neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris, to ask some very important questions...and some not-so-important ones.
Gervais and Harris contemplate the wonders of science and the chaos of modern life while having many good laughs.
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0:00.0 | Hello. Ricky. How's it going? Good. Yeah, good. So, question. Let me make sure both feed |
0:10.9 | her on the floor. What are dreams for? What noise is a monster, mate? When does a baby |
0:17.5 | start thinking? Why doesn't we fear death? If there's no afterlife, morality, what's the |
0:23.9 | point? Sam, what's the point? I think this is the start of your midlife crisis. All of |
0:30.8 | those questions have scientific answers to understand how we got here. That's where many scientists |
0:37.0 | seem to stop and they're thinking about morality. Are you saying you think that there might |
0:41.8 | be other than nothingness in terms of experience? I can't believe you think that. I certainly don't |
0:47.1 | remember the 14 billion years prior to my birth. But why do we fear not existing again? Because we |
0:56.4 | won't know about it. You're certainly not going to embarrass yourself holding that opinion in a |
1:00.6 | scientific context. Would you rather wake up with the head of a dog for your body? At least I'll |
1:06.9 | keep my hair. You'll never go forward. I'm very flattered that you've done an autopsy on my |
1:12.7 | psychologist. I never thought about that before. What I was holding back was even better. |
1:17.6 | It's lovely ending, but we're none the wiser. No, is anyone else. Absolutely mental, a new podcast |
1:26.6 | series that finds Golden Globe and Emmy award-winning comedian Ricky Jervais and his favorite smart friend, |
1:32.3 | neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris, debating some very important questions along with some |
1:37.6 | not-so-important ones. So full series, absolutely mental, is now available at absolutelymental.com. |
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