The Immortality of the Soul

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There's a Cartesian dualism here that is intuitive for people. It seems somehow intuitive that your mind must be something other than what the brain is doing. And it may in fact be, I'm not actually somewhat agnostic as to how consciousness is arising in this universe. So there's the world and then you represent your body in the world. But again, from the point of view of the subject, your body is a kind of object in the world."

Sam Harris speaks to Kieran Setiya about the relevance of philosophy to living a good life. They discuss the existence of objective moral truths, being happy vs living well, our response to grief, the difference between "telic" and "atelic" activities, the power of reframing, FOMO, bias toward the future, regret, the asymmetry between pain and pleasure, and other topics.

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