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#67 — Meaning and Chaos

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Evolution and the Evolution of Morality

"This is where evolution is no longer relevant to a discussion of how people should live," he says. "I think the jury's out on the ultimate validity of the idea of group selection, but I'm not interested in going down that rabbit hole because it doesn't matter to me one way or another really how that's resolved" He adds: We have motives and norms and concerns that don't narrowly track a gene level analysis of what we should be doing.

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