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#174 — Life & Mind

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Vaccination or Acquired Immune System?

The immune system is a kind of short term substitute for natural selection. Natural selection works over generations and equips the animal to deal with circumstances that arise perennially, or at least over a long period. From moment to moment, there are always new epidemics, always, always new varses cropping upr so that's what the immune system is about. An vaccination is assohering the immunes gaming of that year. Ye anand of course, i could also look forward prospectively to situations which we nowtake the human case, are not well adapted to. That's right, vingero. The genetic book of the dead has always got to be a description

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