Sam Harris: Religion is our first attempt at telling a story about what's going on. Making sense of the world. We don't have a truly scientific and easily available conversation about the far end of the continuum of human well-being, he says. I think if we had a truly honest you know positive psychology which was which was built out in all the areas that we needed it would be hard to find. He also believes psychedelic experiences shatter people's egos in good ways.
Neil deGrasse Tyson investigates free will, morality, meditation, psychedelic experiences, artificial intelligence, and more alongside neuroscientist and author Sam Harris, comic co-host Godfrey, neurotheologist Andrew Newberg, and neuroscientist Robert Wright. You have no choice but to listen.
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