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#22 — Surviving the Cosmos

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Assassination of Andy, Is a Historical Event?

I agree with you that people have very wrong ideas about what science is. I think theit it's slightly unfair to put the blame on universities. The misconception arose originally for quite good reasons. It was a wonderful defence against previous forms of authority, which were not only invalid, but stultifying. So it was a good defence, but not actually true. And er in the twentieth century,  people started taking it seriously as not just as a defence, but as being literally true. That almost killed certain sciences. Even within physics, i think it greatly impeded their progress in quantum theory. There need not be any process as accepting a theory because it is conjectured initially and

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