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Stephen Fry: Suffering, Capitalism & What it Means to be Human

Into the Magic Shop

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The Importance of Storytelling

I had a conversation with Sam Harris about this. I think our discussion was about free will, religion and illusion of self. So it was actually quite an interesting discussion. But yeah, you have to accept the fact that you can make the argument it's predetermined but that being said, you're still responsible. And then because otherwise you have this nihilistic approach that why do we do anything? Precisely because we can say that life is random arbitrary, indifferent, nature is cruel,. all the things that are obviously true that anybody who spends any time looking at it.

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