#52 — Finding Our Way in the Cosmos

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

Samharris, Currentevents, Politics, Ethics, Religion, Neuroscience, Science, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 • 29.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Sam Harris speaks with physicist David Deutsch about the foundations of knowledge, the moral landscape, possible futures for conscious beings, and other topics.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast.
0:09.1	This is Sam Harris.
0:11.3	Just a note to say that if you're hearing this, you are not currently on our subscriber
0:14.8	feed and will only be hearing the first part of this conversation.
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0:28.3	other subscriber-only content.
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0:34.6	of our subscribers.
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0:46.7	Today I'll be speaking with the physicist David Deutsch once again about the foundations
0:52.8	of morality.
0:54.5	And this podcast came about in a slightly unusual way.
0:59.3	Since we did our first podcast, David read my book, The Moral Landscape, and he wanted
1:05.1	to talk to me about it.
1:06.9	And he wanted to do this privately, I think, because there were some fundamental things he
1:11.0	disagreed with and he didn't want to break the news to me on my own podcast.
1:14.4	But I urged him to let me record the conversation so that we could release it if we wanted
1:19.5	to.
1:20.5	Because if he was going to dismantle my cherished thesis, I actually wanted you all to hear
1:25.6	that.
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