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#62 — What is True?

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Post Modernism and Darwinian Evolution

i agree with you that this does, it does connect with post modernism in a way that is decidedly unhelpful. I don't but to get back to some of your claims here, there's this claim you're making a bow the darwinian basis of truth and knowledge,. There really is just survival, right? There's just biological change selected against by an environment. And what doesn't gets you killed. You now, obviously that picture of of how we got here is something that i agree with. But our conception of truth, and our conception oftruth in general, and scientific truth specifically, andand even ofdarwinian evolution within that sub set of truth

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