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#292 - How Much Does the Future Matter?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of the Future

I'm surprised at how little I think about the far future in any kind of significant way. And yet if I imagine how I would feel if I knew that it wouldn't exist, if we just figured out that actually the whole story ends in 80 years. What would that do to everything? How would that sap the meaning from what we do? It's a great thought experiment and it's represented in this film, Children of Men, where the global population becomes sterile. The career of the species is radically foreclosed at some point inside of a century.

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