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#22 — Surviving the Cosmos

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Power of Explanation

There's a deep connection between explaining the world and controlling it. You say that anything that isn't precluded by the laws of nature is achievable given the right knowledge. But you do go on to suggest, and you did just suggest it in passing, that knowledge confers power without limit. So there are really only two possibilities, either something is precluded bythe laws of nature, or it is achievable with ledge. Do i have you right there? Yes. And that is, that's what i call the momentous tychotomy, that there can't be any third possibility other than those twod i think you've you've given not only a statement of it, but you

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