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Jan 2018
38m 42s

#115 — Sam Harris, Lawrence Krauss, and ...

SAM HARRIS
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Sam Harris speaks with Lawrence Krauss and Matt Dillahunty about the threat of nuclear war, Christian support for Trump, science and a universal conception of morality, the role of intuition in science, the primacy of consciousness, the nature of time, free will, the self, meditation, and other topics. 

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