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    Making Sense: Conversations on Consciousness, Morality, and the Future of Humanity
    Making Sense: Conversations on Consciousness, Morality, and the Future of Humanity
    Making Sense: Conversations on Consciousness, Morality, and the Future of Humanity
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    Making Sense: Conversations on Consciousness, Morality, and the Future of Humanity

    Written by Sam Harris

    Narrated by Sam Harris, David Chalmers, David Deutsch and

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    From the bestselling author of Waking Up and The End of Faith, a collection of the best conversations from his wildly popular, often controversial podcast, Making Sense.

    “Civilization rests on a series of successful conversations.” —Sam Harris

    Sam Harris—neuroscientist, philosopher, and bestselling author—has been exploring some of the most important questions about the human mind, society, and current events on his podcast, Making Sense. With over one million downloads per episode, these discussions have clearly hit a nerve, frequently walking a tightrope where either host or guest—and sometimes both—lose their footing, but always in search of a greater understanding of the world in which we live. For Harris, honest conversation, no matter how difficult or controversial, represents the only path to moral and intellectual progress. 

    The Making Sense audiobook includes talks with Daniel Kahneman, Timothy Snyder, Nick Bostrom, and Glen Loury, on topics that range from the nature of consciousness and free will, to politics and extremism, to living ethically. Together they shine a light on what it means to “make sense” in the modern world.


    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateAug 11, 2020
    ISBN9780063005402
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    Sam Harris

    Sam Harris is the author of the bestselling books The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape, Free Will, and Lying.  The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction and his work has been published in more than 20 languages. He has written for the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, the Economist, the Times (London), the Boston Globe, the Atlantic, the Annals of Neurology, and elsewhere. He received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.

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      It just seemed like a group of men conversing on their different ideas about the 3 subjects. Nothing wrong with that but it didn’t seem to make sense or make connections.

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    • 4/5
      Sam Harris' MAKING SENSE is my podcast discovery of the year. He talks about the coolest shit, has the most awesome "slow talker" delivery, puts no time limit on his rambling introductory monologues or interviews... and always makes me laugh by timing how long it takes him in any podcast to ask his guest, whosoever the guest may be, "Ever tried psychedelics?" and/or "Do you do meditation?" You know he has to be a real quality thinker and talker for me to put up with smugness about meditation, and envy of psychedelic use.This book is a transcript of a bunch of his podcast interviews. The topics include consciousness, a bit of current events circa 2017, AI, and tangential general psychology. It was all interesting. I have no jump-out quotes to share, though.