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#62 — What is True?

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Darwinian Claims Are False

Darwin's idea was that truths are always bounded because we're ignorant. And so and what darwin did, as far as the pragmatists were concerned, was to put forth the following proposition: it was impossible for a finite organism to keep up with a multi dimensionally transforming landscape. I can't see how you can get outside that claim if you're a darwinian. The only way to insure adaptation to the a unpredictadly transforming environment is through random mutation, essentially, and death. That there is no truth claim whatsoever that can surpass that. It seems to me there's a fundamental contradiction between darwin's claims and the newton deterministic claim

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