Jonathan Fields talks with Sam Harris, an outspoken atheist and critic of the anti-racist movement. In August, he published a book featuring 12 conversations from his podcast. If you'd like to hear our full two-hour chat, we get into why anxiety causes us to suffer things twice. We also talk about what consciousness and space have in common,. And how we can find a detour off of humanity's path to extinction.
Neuroscientist, philosopher, podcaster, author, meditation guru, and unabashed atheist Sam Harris is one of our best-known — and most controversial — public intellectuals. In this bonus episode, he and Rufus talk about consciousness, free will, morality, and people’s stubborn insistence on being irrational.