Dr. Sam Harris
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first heard Jun 2024
last heard 23 Aug
Dr. Sam Harris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But the the thing I would point out is that
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Whatever is possible for us spiritually, I mean you know, if if self transcending love is possible, if an ex if an if a true experience of selflessness is possible.
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Right.
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Uh as I think that both of those things are.
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We want to understand that in terms that are not sectarian y and and dividing our community on the basis of Iron Age tribes, right?
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I mean w th there there's a deeper
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set of y of universal and and and trans cultural truth claims to be made there about the capacity of the human mind.
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Uh yeah, it's it's a hard question.
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Uh you know, the the honest answer is I I don't know.
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I I think it's you know, it probably has something to do with
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more access to information ultimately.
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I'm I I just think that that there is a
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a an important asymmetry between
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the you know, the uh in the tug of war, which is now, you know, many centuries old between
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enlightenment rationality and secularism and uh and a universal conception of human rights and democracy and everything else that's
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On the good side of uh
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That sort of uh progress that allows for open societies.
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and religious orthodoxy, you know, you know, iron age uh certainties about the the unique veracity of of a a single revelation, right?
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So i it used to be
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