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#115 — Sam Harris, Lawrence Krauss, and Matt Dillahunty (1)

Making Sense with Sam Harris

CHAPTER

Is Consciousness a Property of the Universe?

There's something strange about believing that these books as written give you a truly moral world view. You would endorse if any person behaved the way the god of the bible behaves. That is our definition of a psychopath. We possess reason, but doesn't at all drive our actions. Every piece of human knowledge has to be brought to bear on how to live a fulfilling life. And we have to break the spell of thinking that we need to live forever shattered by tribal dogmatisms in order to talk about their being right answers to moral questions.

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