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#22 — Surviving the Cosmos

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Limitless Fungibility of the Universe on the Basis of Knowledge

In your book, you make amazingly powerful claims about the utility of knowledge. The fishiness i was detecting worries me less than what i'm going to go on to talk about, regarding the reach. You posit for explanation, but it's more a matter of emphasis. And therefore we're back to this ticodomy. There's just the laws of nature, and there's the fact that knowledge can do anything compatible with those laws. It would be an absolute, absolutely amazing turn up for the books if that turned out to be beyond physics some i mean, beyond what we know of physics to day.

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