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#327 - Transformative Experiences

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Randomness in Reality

Timothy Stanley: I think possibility is real. But in what sense does it, if it is real, how does its reality get impressed upon the actual? He says we try to grasp them through our imagination through various kinds of representations. We try to manipulate the world so that we can make something that's merely possible, especially if it's physically possible, make it actual.Stanley: In truth, only a very small subset of the things I could have said were in fact possible now.

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