Not Sure If This Goes Here, But Hey...
#141 posted by
Zwiffle on 2010/03/30 00:03:06
Anyone See Sam Harris' TED Talk Yet?
#142 posted by Tronyn on 2010/04/01 00:20:19
http://www.project-reason.org/newsfeed/item/moral_confusion_in_the_name_of_science3/
video is on top, with some responses to criticism below.
I think that if Harris's perspective can be advocated well enough to gain widespread acceptance, at least among smart people (who will then feel absolutely fine with discounting the moral perspective of a creationist as easily as their perspective on geology), society will be transformed in a positive way.
#143 posted by
Zwiffle on 2010/04/01 00:33:37
I saw it, and also watched the debate on ABC with Sam Harris and Deepak Chopra, where he basically says the same thing against the inane ideas of Mr. Chopra. Both were awesome.
And Harris
#145 posted by
ijed on 2010/04/01 01:15:16
Is a very smart guy.
That's the kind of mental versatility I always try to ape, before getting bogged down in pointlessness.
Although
#146 posted by
ijed on 2010/04/01 02:28:02
Biased towards the North American POV. Not necessarily a bad place to start. Nor good - as he mentions with the lads mags <-> Burka brigade screen.
I can see why he needs to de-simplify what would be knee-jerk reactions in the comments below.
Interesting
#147 posted by Tronyn on 2010/04/08 07:51:45
to see the controversy over what harris has said recently - and mostly from smart people - ie scientists, not theologians. in the latest back/forth I saw a whole new level of empiricism vs idealism, of course the former has always has the "science: it works, bitches" argument on its side but harris carries that to a whole new level.