Dr. Sam Harris
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first heard Jun 2024
last heard 23 Aug
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Yeah, yeah.
I'm just chock full of faith, among other things.
And I want this to be so, this belief.
Don, you don't understand.
This belief gives my life meanings.
right?
And, you know, I wouldn't want to live in a universe where I'm not going to marry Jennifer Lawrence.
I mean, these are the kinds of things people say in defense of their religious beliefs, and they make absolutely no sense when you map them onto any other
propositional claim about the way the world is or the way the world will be in the future.
It's just that belief doesn't work that way.
This is the very essence of wishful thinking and motivated reasoning.
This is the thing we purge from our conversation in a scientific context.
And that's the only way we can do science.
That's the only way we can converge on designing anything like a map that fits the territory, because we know we're not bullshitting ourselves.
Let's acknowledge that.
Well, I think it's playing an enormous one, especially on the Palestinian side.
I mean, it's not that you can't find religious maniacs on the Israeli side.
You certainly can, and their presence is
is quite unhelpful and doing its best to inflame the conflict.
So I think the settlements in the West Bank, et cetera, all of that is a disaster.
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