There's a hunger for a secular alternative to religion, but I'm mindful of the danger of formalizing and creating any kind of institution around those. You think of this as an informal project or might we eventually have a version with music and whatever the modern version of stained glass windows would be? It's actually hard to get the language right and the ritual right. We definitely have not solved this problem in secular culture.
Neuroscientist, philosopher, podcaster, author, meditation guru, and unabashed atheist Sam Harris is one of our best-known — and most controversial — public intellectuals. In this bonus episode, he and Rufus talk about consciousness, free will, morality, and people’s stubborn insistence on being irrational.