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#178 — The Reality Illusion

Making Sense with Sam Harris

CHAPTER

The Evolution Argument

Soyast: I spend a lot of time challenging you, mostly because i actually think there's something very interesting that you're doing. So my first question is really to just get us on the same page as a starting point. Where do you draw the boundary of an evolved system that, by definition, gives us false information about the nature of reality? And there's kind of a second part to that, which is where we might disagree. But i would say that we have learned. We've gott much closer to that by these processes that i think are outside the boundary of this evolved system. O so up until a point, our brains are giving us all this false information,.

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