#60 — An Evening with Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris (2)

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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🗓️ 10 January 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Sam Harris speaks with Richard Dawkins at a live event in Los Angeles (second of two). They discuss Richard’s experience of having a stroke, the genetic future of humanity, the analogy between genes and memes, the “extended phenotype,” Islam and bigotry, the biology of race, how to find meaning without religion, and other topics.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast. This is Sam Harris. Just a note to say that if you're
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0:46.9	Please forgive me if I croak. I've just had a minor stroke. Basel ganglion on the right
0:58.9	makes me walk because if I'm tight. So if my voice descends to squawking, Sam would have to do the talking.
1:14.7	Thank you all for coming. This is what a sold out house looks like when the cubs are in the
1:19.8	seventh game with the World Series. There's a place and hell for those people who
1:24.9	have caught tickets and didn't use them. Needless to say, it's an honor to be here and a real
1:30.0	honor to be doing this with Richard. I get to do this twice in one week. This is the second night.
1:35.5	I think you know. Richard and I were worried about this. We were worried about this event because
1:42.8	we thought we would have a great conversation last night, and then we didn't want to spend
1:47.9	an hour in front of you here trying to recapitulate that conversation. So as a way of avoiding that
1:53.9	fate, I went out to all of you, I think online, asking for questions, and I got thousands of
1:59.5	questions. I picked many. So the questions will track through tonight are different from the ones
2:05.2	we did last night, and this is all being videotaped, and you can see what you missed last night once
2:09.6	that video is available. But I wasn't actually planning to ask this, but I wanted to talk about
2:15.1	your stroke, because we haven't spoken about this, and I'm going to guess that the sock choice is
2:19.7	not evidence of your stroke. Well, I was explaining last night that at the recent skeptics conference
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