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#14 — The Virtues of Cold Blood

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Inhomogeneity Between Psychology and Physics

There's no real resistance to the enterprise of physics, when you think about an open ended search for explanation. So so for whatever reason, im obvious physical facts don't meet with the same objection. Nobody feels threatened if you say you're studying gravity, or in our energy or mass. While if you said you're studying love or religion or morality, it gets people scarred up. I mean, maybe the's a case to be made that it should get people scarmed up. Maybe a lot of society runs an certain things not being questioned and not being challenged,. The influence of people like you and me is not necessarily a positive one.

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