Episode 59: Tumors All the Way Down (With Sam Harris)
Very Bad Wizards
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The Cost of Authenticating Conscious Experience
The buy-in for orthodox Judaism, or really any of the Abrahamic religions, is a faith-based claim about the divine origin of certain books. And then when you start to pray, you're praying to a God who you have to, at least provisionally think exists. You can't pray to Jesus for the salvation of your soul in that same frame of mind. There's a lot you have to believe in order to get that project started.
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