Episode #192

Sam Harris

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Sam Harris is an author and public intellectual who discusses religion, terrorism, geopolitical conflict, and the tension between national security and civil liberties. Joe Rogan and Harris also examine the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, religious extremism, psychedelics, meditation, mystical experiences, free will, morality, and evidence for psychic and other extraordinary claims.

What they talked about

  • Comparing debates to Gracie challenge videos
  • Religion as belief vs. cultural scaffolding
  • Civil liberties and the war on terror
  • Motivations behind jihadist terrorism
  • /11 conspiracy theories and probability
  • Meditation vs. psychedelics for altered states
  • Free will and unconscious decision-making
  • Critique of psychic phenomena and hot hand fallacy

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