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#327 - Transformative Experiences

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Knowing the Nature of the Experience

I think there are appropriate times to protect yourself from, let's say, having a cognitive bias. But what if you don't know about the nature of the experience? It could be great or it could be bad. There's no kind of higher order evidence that's going to tell you either way. This, I think, can be a way to understand questions about religious belief because there's no sort of independent way of ascertaining whether or not the DEDN question exists.

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