Making Sense with Sam Harris

Some episodes are really mind bending especially neuroscience and brain stuff. I love when conversation feels fresh instead of toxic such as religion. I like seeing science, brain, consciousness topics best. For me number one is Making Sense and number two is Joe Rogen Experince.

Sad to see Sam unravel from the world’s conscience to bashing elon musk for views and subscriptions. He may sometimes have a point but rather than being rational he goes all in on painting musk as insane, without explaining the rational motives that drive this behaviour. Fatal case of TDS and now EDS. RIP.

Ironically, Harris’s own position resembles religious fanaticism in its willful incuriosity. For Harris, the fact that some self-described jihadists have committed atrocities for purely metaphysical reasons means that no self-described jihadist could possibly be motivated primarily by political grievances. The fallacy here is so obvious that it’s hard to see how someone as intelligent as Harris could fail to recognize it. His logic is scarcely distinguishable from the statement “Stalin was an atheist, and committed violence in the name of socialism. Therefore, all atheists who commit violence are exclusively motivated by socialist ideology.” Clearly, it is possible for groups to share a broad worldview without having identical motives or commitments. Harris surely thinks that his analysis of Israel and Hamas is grounded on pure reason. In reality, it rests on blind faith.

Just listen to episode 351. Astonishing moral and factual ignorance.