It just seems somehow strange it's not only not 100% you can't. We have we have psychological theories about why if you lie to me or you make a mistake like I have a sort of a reliable understanding of what it means. But in this particular situation they don't have that with how neither do we so it's completely unclear where that motivation would come from. It's really puzzling one thing I want to say about the chess game that I meant to say is the other possibility is that what he was doing there was testing how quickly was it Dave playing test I think so how how?
We welcome Sam Harris back to the show for a deep dive into Stanley Kubrick’s confounding 1968 masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey." How long is the Dawn of Man? What does the second monolith do exactly? Why are the humans so banal and expressionless? What are HAL’S motivations? Has he planned his mutiny from the start, or does the Council’s deception make him manlfunction? Or something else? Who is the Council anyway? Was HAL meant to go through the stargate? What is the final leap forward in consciousness? The hotel room, the starchild, all the rectangles, rectangles everywhere, the music – what does it all mean????
Plus Sam has some thoughts about our Rorty episode and David tries to rile Tamler up about Kanye’s antisemitism.
note: there's a bit of an abrupt transition between our brief opening and Sam telling a story about Rorty in around the 9 minute mark... couldn't be helped.
Special Guest: Sam Harris.
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