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Making Sense of Foundations of Morality

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Consciousness

In this clip we'll be speaking about the apparent consciousness of non-human earthly animals. If our evolved tastes have led us to get enjoyment out of the consumption of animal flesh, can we simply keep our treasured consumption behavior but knock out the consciousness from the process? We'll start with Sam recounting a moment where he called himself out for a failure to look at the details of a global practice he is quite sure is a moral embarrassment that will be judged harshly by our descendants.

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