I love Sam's excellent delivery. What a great storyteller/communicator he is. His command of the english language, wit and humour is remarkable. I have followed him for years and think that this is one of his finest presentations. Knock 'em alive Sam.
I know right? Before anything else I noticed just how much of a master public speaker he is, years of reading, thinking, writing and debating has led him to pull off this brilliant presentation.
@@mzuwt Terrible video and the info you provide does not address what Sam stated. Go pray to Mecca and quit being butt hurt. There is no God! P.s. Wahhhhhhh
@@straizys was going to make your comment, & yes, just because real living & dying on the planet is harsh, with a lotta cruel, until we die, does not mean that there is or was not love, it's just not the fake, disney kind of love that the ego might want to imagine.
Take A Moment As a veteran of the RAF for 28yrs, Sam speaks volumes about reality and as for me; a failed suicide victim of PTSD. This is a worldwide issue. Pandemic aside, we all have felt deep sadness in our lives. Death of a pet a friend or joblessness are symptoms of PTSD. Relax Think about it awhile. Just relaxing, and listening to Sam read the phone book from a London bus, a foxhole and your dreams. We need a reset to the world full stop. A beautiful mind, Sam has created a new self for me. I can escape the sadness with 20 drugs a day and all of the support, I am Jester Moon, and happiness is my goal. For the world. Peace etc x Stay Safe and Stay Free 🎉
Tyson is not a thinker and Kaku is kookoo. It's good to see you know your popular scientists though. Einstein, Dawkins, Hawking and Darwin shouldn't be mentioned among these people as if the rest are on the same level, they are giants compared to the rest. When it comes to thinkers then I would only put Harris, Hitchens and Sagan. Kaku, Tyson, Krauss and Cox are only popular for making science accessible to the masses, Shermer for being a skeptic.
@@jamesyboy4626 Einstein, Darwin, and Hawkins should not be at the same level as Sam Harris. I agree. But Dawkins can be compared to Harris As Dawkins is also an educator of Science. He is not credited wit a big discovery in Science.
"Do you think that your experience with meditation and selflessness has contributed to your unusual skill at thinking and communicating clearly on your feet?" "Uhhhhhh...." Classic.
Atheists support hate-based lifestyles such as LGBT-Z. Real love includes respecting self and others, not disrespecting self and not molesting others. Living to ensure a trashed eternity, as atheists practice, is self-hate.
@@BagofDreams What did he do there? I don’t think he was making any kind of joke. “Wheel house” is just an expression meaning someone’s area of competence or expertise.
"When a chiropractor is telling you about the implications of quantum mechanics, you know you have opened the wrong door in the mansion of understanding." Classic Sam Harris.
Religion is tough to compete with. Even though it's wrong, it provides a certainty about the past and the future and removes despair. It appeals to emotion and tribalism which is hard to fight against with reasoning.
Exactly why I don't go there anymore with religious people. I am very black and white and have accepted the reality of who we are. I agree, it is impossible to use reason with them. So, I don't.
@@patrickvanmeter2922 probably a good plan. I remember being religious minded and no amount of reasoning, facts or logical fallacies pointed out would change what I believed. The non religious person was wrong. I just had to figure out how or accuse them of being blind or deceived. It's a no win unless the religious minded have their own doubts they want to discuss.
I'm a fan, in a manner of speaking, of Sam Harris; his You Tube talks & debates and his writing. I watched this and it strikes me very squarely as an American update on the practice of #Zazen, California style. In the early 1970s, I was deeply into "Zen" practice..."sitting" and meditating on "koans". I had a roshi I and I strove mightily to achieve that one pointed focus of the practice...to quell "the chattering monkey of the discursive mind". It works. This seems to be exactly the same thing within a neuroscience presentation. It's what all practices of meditation do and it makes great sense.
@@anonxnor That's a good question! I think the only way to do it is to start with volunteers. The problem here is obviously that without religious faith, all parties are going to think twice about "is this worth the trouble" and changes are pretty high that we don't have enough volunteers. COVID-19 doesn't help either because it makes physical meetings a worse option. So maybe we're stuck with TH-cam videos only, at least for now.
I used to think I was getting good at meditating because there wasn't any word showing through my head, untill I realised that every noise I focused in on, every feeling, every mental image counted as thought
The visual clarity of this video is so amazing. May be it's the lightning. At 01:28:47, the details on Sam's faces are so sharp. The lightning isn't perfectly illuminating the face (as they do in advertisements), yet it is done in a way that looks very interesting.
00:00-25:00 Amazing, talk about redefining spirituality as it always should have been, before the ego came in and polluted it with its agendas and made what we today call "religion"
The parable, "man shot with an arrow" recounted by Buddha is relevant to the degree that it can cure anxiety, depression, concerning oneself with events over which you have no control. Fascinating to witness Sam Harris citing the parable. Wonderful!..
wow its amazing to me how he mentions to move your hand and notice how you have no idea how its done.....many years ago after many years of thought , I came to this awareness.....looking at my hand and moving it and saying to myself "I have no idea how im doing that....but I will it to happen"
One of Harris' best talks. In contrast to his earlier work, which was mostly pointing out the numerous negative aspects of religion, this one acknowledges the positive aspects of religion and points out that they need not be linked to historical religious traditions, and seeks to break them off into 'spirituality' as he (re-) defines it.
I'd suggest giving it another watch if your takeaway was that he laid out "the positives of religion". "Extracting the diamond from the dunghill", as he put it, indicates that there are good ideas/insights that are explained or observed within various contemplative traditions but which have nothing inherently to do with religion.
Incredible to me that the existence the dinosaurs, and probably our presence here today, depended on just a few hours in the rotation of the Earth. If the asteroid had crashed into the deeper part of the Pacific far from land most of the impact would have been absorbed, the dinos might still be here, but not us. How fate can turn on such a small wheel, and that includes our existence as a species.
Had a conversation with my cousin who is a devote Christian (catholic) and explained that I don't believe in God simply because I am not convinced. He couldn't get his head around that difference between the two of us. After some time I asked if he considered that the other worshipped deities throughout history were possible and he confidently stated no and was equally confused by me not being convinced. I came to the conclusion that he wasn't distributed that I didn't believe in God but that he was dumbfounded that I didn't believe in his God.
1:22:07 I fully agree that inventing a new term (such as "omega point") to replace "spirituality" to avoid listener from potentially mixing it with religious experiences would be bad. The explanation Harris gives here is superb.
After a humid, 19 mile hike in 90°F temps, I sat in a cool mountain creek. I call that experience a "spiritual" one. My friends understand the intended irony in my usage, but I'm careful to avoid using that word around believers, just to make sure they don't get the wrong idea about me.
At around 22:00 he mentions that consciousness can’t mapped in the brain essentially and says there’s nowhere that it all comes together. There literally is though its called the Parieaqueductal Gray. The PAG is literally where consciousness originates. Read Mark Solms’ works on this subject he’s a neuroscientist who has dedicated all of his studies to this exact question. As a matter of fact, Sam mentions Nagel’s “What it’s like…” philosophy and that’s literally exactly what Mark Solms believes in as well. He’s a neuroscientist and psychoanalyst who’s basically bridging the gap between the brain and the mind. Incredible stuff I highly recommend him to anyone. Edit to say that I am so happy that Sam is talking about this. Reductionism in neuroscience is not doing justice to what it’s like to be a human being. Diagnosing depression with a fucking brain scan instead of talking to the person. It’s insane to me and I’m so glad Sam is talking about this.
I tend to feel that answers to long sought questions aor solutions to problems actually decorate those issues as even more profound as well as our lives.
I've often wondered how any rational, intelligent person can dislike Sam Harris because I know he has his detractors. I think it's because Sam pulls no punches and calls out ignorance, superstition, and dishonesty with laser-like precision. I suppose if I fell into one of those categories, I would feel insulted as well. And since I don't believe in free will, I guess I feel lucky that I somehow stumbled into a life that falls squarely along the path of logic, reason, and the love of all things that are true. Thank you, Sam for your tireless efforts to tell the truth.
What ever this mindfulness thing is I can’t do it, and I think I have that thought over and over when I meditate, but I’m not sure. I’ve been at it for 10 years
What piques my interest is at the very end when imagining a secular canon to us guide us through life with meaningful rituals that rival those of religions. Why not create a wiki where the 20% of us the “spiritual not religious” folk co-create a library of ceremonies, traditions, philosophy and other guides that rivals every aspect of the actual benefits of religions. I want to borrow from Hindus and have a day when we can throw colorful dyes all over each other’s white clothes, in this case maybe simply to celebrate the joy and importance of play. I’d make it an official holiday; Play Day. So I ask this crowd, what would you like to add to the SNR canon? Would you maybe be willing to write up a ritual if the was a wiki? I’ve been thinking of this for years, and I’ll bet I’m not the only one. So let’s start with some ideas: New holidays. Play Day, Gratitude Day and many other “wisdom days” “Virtue Days” like Truth Day where we have rituals reminding us of the benefits of honesty and it’s sub-virtues such as integrity, and Courage Day that reinforces discipline and authenticity and other aspects of courage. Death Day, not like Day of the Dead honoring ancestors (which would also be a great one to add) but when we have a ritual that begins in the morning with a birth ritual and ends with a death ritual, reminding us of the brevity of life. I would imagine that almost everyday would have some kind of ritual noticing of the annual cycles such the fines of planting and harvest, or even daily such as banging a gong just as the sun touches the horizon to wake us up to noticing. Add your ideas to the canon calendar or Book of ______? The Book of Now The Book of Sam (Just a joke. We’d have to crucify him twice and then wait 100 years to get any traction.) The Secular Canon The Natural Bible What would you like to add? Rites of passages, a funeral ceremony, a ceremonial wedding dance, or the story of Genesis: “In the beginning there was…potential” and go on to metaphorically trace the Big Bang Add your ideas in the comments and maybe contribute to the nascent wiki.
No, they’re actually neither. I know that sounded clever or wise when you said it and wrote it down. But it’s incorrect. There’s in fact no difference between the two, because one does not author their own edits either. If you think that they do, it’s because you’ve misunderstood his argument about free will.
7:30 How so? or What does he mean by this anchored to worst part of culture or superstition? An explanation of his meaning here would be helpful as I am not connecting any specific dots to this statement.
6:33 - if you start from here, he's making the point that there are profound experiences that we can have, which are commonly referred to as "spiritual," and that those experiences historically come with the unnecessary baggage of religion or superstition. This means that skeptics/rationalists may deny themselves these profound experiences because they consider them to be woo-woo nonsense, but if they just pay attention to their experiences/thoughts, then that is all that's necessary. We don't have to believe in any gods or crystal powers, etc, to have these experiences.
@@usergrade1841if I got to ask Sam a question, I would also like to ask a question that was very meaningful to me, and that might require some context. I also get annoyed when people start laying out their life stories, but I also understand it.
I saw him live. I was impressed at the quickness he delivered some one of the funniest lines as a response to a Q&A after the show. This man is the real deal
Theoretical thinking is meditation. It helps to study the evidence beforehand. None thinking is sleep. It helps to rewire the mind. That's how we grow wise. Mature.
22:12 i like to think the increase in the chest section for US Americans is from firearms training, where you're taught that the chest is a person's "center of mass" (and the slightly brighter mouth is from eating all the time)
What he is saying makes sense. When I believed in a god, I thought we were creatures of duality. That was incorrect. I’m open to changing my mind about the self. I also object to the term spiritual tho even if I said crazy things coming down from acid trips during my 20’s.
It wasn't until I heard Joscha Bach speak about the nature of spirituality and its terminology in Lex Fridman's podcast that I started to come around to the usage of the term myself. It might also be of some interest. th-cam.com/video/P-2P3MSZrBM/w-d-xo.html
The question about meditating effecting the quality of Sams thining and quickness thinking on his feet I have also wondered about Yuval Noah Harari. I believe he has made claims that his meditation allows him to do things he otherwise would not have been able to do.
1:00:41 Spirituality in all its forms, including even `secular spirituality`, has within itself the proclivity to tend to believe in something other than what is. Certainly, the reality that we know is probably a very small part of the forces at play in the universal reality, but the fact is that the proclivity to believe that we are more than what is does not really help anyone in any way to approach the unknown with reasonableness. Instead, it pushes us away from reasonableness... towards the oblivion of illusions.
Four of our 5 senses are in the head.Touch runs in auto-pilot but For purposeful action, the most important senses are our eyes and our ears. Maybe that’s why we consider ourselves in between our eyes and ears.
When you go to sleep... Turn off every light and turn off all sound sources... Just close your eyes and relax... you will still have the sense of living / existing or being in your brain.
@@GStones58 that’s a little like saying go to bed, the sandwich you ate is still in your belly. You see yourself inside your head all day, that’s not going to change for the 10 minutes upon go to bed before sleeping. Of course you are used to that.
Sam Harris! Our consciousness is the idle mode or the standby mode of the brain. On the analogy of the cell phone. This insight is quite helpful to me. In dealing with my delusions. I concede that this analogy is not a scientific explanation. Lakshminarayanan Bengaluru, India.
Thanks for apologizing more than once for how your big brain will confuse us in the first two minutes. Your reassurance you would help us catch up at least a little within the next two hours gave me courage.
I believe that ‘god’ is nothing more than conscience. (which explains a lot when people say their “god” told them this that or the other) When you and I die, our/my god/conscience dies with me. No ifs and or buts.
I love Sam's excellent delivery. What a great storyteller/communicator he is. His command of the english language, wit and humour is remarkable. I have followed him for years and think that this is one of his finest presentations. Knock 'em alive Sam.
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I know right? Before anything else I noticed just how much of a master public speaker he is, years of reading, thinking, writing and debating has led him to pull off this brilliant presentation.
Absolutely! I love this man's intellect, wit and wisdom. He changed my life.
@@mzuwt Terrible video and the info you provide does not address what Sam stated. Go pray to Mecca and quit being butt hurt. There is no God! P.s. Wahhhhhhh
@@lyotimachida5380 Didn’t you forget 2 wahhh’s?
For me, this is the most valuable talk Sam Harris has ever given. I will watch this many times. Thank you so much.🌷
I agree. I’ve listened to it so many times. I love the part about pride being a hollow experience
A true candle in the darkness of our world.
Lol. Correct. He illuminates as much as a candle. Soon you will be illuminated by the power of the sun.
"The universe loves us as much as it loved the dinosaurs". Cold blooded reality right there.
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Oh something's going to wipe us out. Make no mistake about that
loved them a lot. just because they died in suffering doesn't mean universe didn't love them :))))
@@mzuwt Wow Sam Harris made some good points there thanks for sharing that with us Mohammad
@@straizys was going to make your comment,
& yes, just because real living & dying on the planet is harsh, with a lotta cruel, until we die, does not mean that there is or was not love, it's just not the fake, disney kind of love that the ego might want to imagine.
Sam is amazing! Way more people should be able to watch this
Can’t get enough of Sam, interesting as usual.
extremely valuable talk and Q&A. Ben Stiller keeps surprising me.
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Ben Stiller so intelligent
@@mzuwt The Islamic Golden Age was golden until the people started believing in their religion and not the science. That's when they fucked it up.
@@rebbeshort Actually, the Christian Crusades and the Inquisition put an end to the Islamic Golden Age. Nice try, but you fucked up.
Please stop making the lame “Ben Stiller” joke. It is so tired and played out.
Dr. Harris is brilliant! Right up there with Sagan, Einstein, Dawkins, Tyson, Hitchens, Cox, Krauss, Kaku, Shermer, Darwin and Hawking.
Take A Moment
As a veteran of the RAF for 28yrs, Sam speaks volumes about reality and as for me; a failed suicide victim of PTSD.
This is a worldwide issue.
Pandemic aside, we all have felt deep sadness in our lives.
Death of a pet a friend or joblessness are symptoms of PTSD.
Relax
Think about it awhile.
Just relaxing, and listening to Sam read the phone book from a London bus, a foxhole and your dreams.
We need a reset to the world full stop.
A beautiful mind, Sam has created a new self for me.
I can escape the sadness with 20 drugs a day and all of the support, I am Jester Moon, and happiness is my goal.
For the world.
Peace etc x
Stay Safe and Stay Free 🎉
Tyson is not a thinker and Kaku is kookoo. It's good to see you know your popular scientists though. Einstein, Dawkins, Hawking and Darwin shouldn't be mentioned among these people as if the rest are on the same level, they are giants compared to the rest. When it comes to thinkers then I would only put Harris, Hitchens and Sagan. Kaku, Tyson, Krauss and Cox are only popular for making science accessible to the masses, Shermer for being a skeptic.
@@jamesyboy4626 Einstein, Darwin, and Hawkins should not be at the same level as Sam Harris. I agree. But Dawkins can be compared to Harris As Dawkins is also an educator of Science. He is not credited wit a big discovery in Science.
How the hell does Kaku make that list? Glorified numerologist.
Excellent talk. Thank you for sharing it! I’ve listened to a lot of Sam, and there were some great new / differently framed insights in here.
I've always thought Sam Harris was excellent, but this is by far the best I've ever seen him. This is excellent information.
"Do you think that your experience with meditation and selflessness has contributed to your unusual skill at thinking and communicating clearly on your feet?"
"Uhhhhhh...."
Classic.
1:59:25 😂
This is his hack.
Good on him
Vipassana is very helpful.
Profound talk as always.
Thank you Sir.
Sam Harris is the world’s pre eminent public intellectual. He articulates his positions so well that it is impossible to disagree with him.
Babies in the basement
What a dumb statement
" Real genuine love survives the truth " - Sam Harris
Atheists support hate-based lifestyles such as LGBT-Z.
Real love includes respecting self and others, not disrespecting self and not molesting others.
Living to ensure a trashed eternity, as atheists practice, is self-hate.
@@igotstoknow2 Get some help.....
So true.
@@igotstoknow2 your mind has a worm in it bro
“The I and the Me keep each other company.” Oooo good one. Chills. 37:21
This is Sam at his best IMO. Let’s all be humans.
I agree. He's in his wheel house.
@@butterflyblueshorts hahahaha I see what you did there 😀
@@BagofDreams What did he do there? I don’t think he was making any kind of joke. “Wheel house” is just an expression meaning someone’s area of competence or expertise.
@@therainman7777 Harris uses that phrase a lot.
"When a chiropractor is telling you about the implications of quantum mechanics, you know you have opened the wrong door in the mansion of understanding." Classic Sam Harris.
Although not necessarily accurate.
@@junehodsdon8037 Why? Your opinion?
@@robertbentley3589 Because it is possible for a chiropractor to speak with knowledge on the implications of quantum mechanics.
@@ronsnow402 Because it is possible for a chiropractor to speak with knowledge on the implications of quantum mechanics.
@@ronsnow402 agreed, but that does not change the correct point the OP was making that you asked about.
sam has got to be one of the most reliably great public speakers out there. every talk is amazing.
I use this video to fall asleep. His voice...relaxing. :)
It's nice to know I'm not the only one.
Also mee
Lmao. Me right now 😂😂. Absolutely Love him
Excellent work Sam. I've experienced 2 strokes ln last 15 months. Learning to think clearly. Keenly interested jn development of mediation skills.
Sam is so funny XD. My favourite speaker
Every sentence is packed with useful information
I’ve listened to it so many times.
I’m having to stop half way through his initial talk, just to reflect on all he’s laid out here. What a thrill to hear these truths.
I'm alive and Sam Harris is alive ,life can't be better
Hahahaha. “I usually speak well but sometimes when I can’t get the words out, then I’m just worried about dementia.”
SAME. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Religion is tough to compete with. Even though it's wrong, it provides a certainty about the past and the future and removes despair. It appeals to emotion and tribalism which is hard to fight against with reasoning.
Exactly why I don't go there anymore with religious people. I am very black and white and have accepted the reality of who we are. I agree, it is impossible to use reason with them. So, I don't.
@@patrickvanmeter2922 probably a good plan. I remember being religious minded and no amount of reasoning, facts or logical fallacies pointed out would change what I believed. The non religious person was wrong. I just had to figure out how or accuse them of being blind or deceived. It's a no win unless the religious minded have their own doubts they want to discuss.
Misinterpretation!
@@razony What's a misinterpretation?
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Where do I start? Adam and Eve... The snake and the apple. Where do you want me to go with this?
I'm a fan, in a manner of speaking, of Sam Harris; his You Tube talks & debates and his writing. I watched this and it strikes me very squarely as an American update on the practice of #Zazen, California style.
In the early 1970s, I was deeply into "Zen" practice..."sitting" and meditating on "koans". I had a roshi I and I strove mightily to achieve that one pointed focus of the practice...to quell "the chattering monkey of the discursive mind". It works.
This seems to be exactly the same thing within a neuroscience presentation.
It's what all practices of meditation do and it makes great sense.
2:10:05 I'd love having mini TED conference every Sunday in every city, too! I would visit those regularly unlike all those religious buildings.
How do we make it happen?
@@anonxnor That's a good question! I think the only way to do it is to start with volunteers. The problem here is obviously that without religious faith, all parties are going to think twice about "is this worth the trouble" and changes are pretty high that we don't have enough volunteers.
COVID-19 doesn't help either because it makes physical meetings a worse option. So maybe we're stuck with TH-cam videos only, at least for now.
when I can achieve moments of no thought, I feel a sense of complete bliss and serenity, but thoughts enter quickly so that feeling doesn't last long.
I used to think I was getting good at meditating because there wasn't any word showing through my head, untill I realised that every noise I focused in on, every feeling, every mental image counted as thought
“Consciousness is the one thing in the universe, including the universe, that cannot be an illusion.” All I have to say is WOW.
The visual clarity of this video is so amazing. May be it's the lightning. At 01:28:47, the details on Sam's faces are so sharp. The lightning isn't perfectly illuminating the face (as they do in advertisements), yet it is done in a way that looks very interesting.
Lighting my friend:)
Smart, Well Spoken, Funny💜
00:00-25:00 Amazing, talk about redefining spirituality as it always should have been, before the ego came in and polluted it with its agendas and made what we today call "religion"
The parable, "man shot with an arrow" recounted by Buddha is relevant to the degree that it can cure anxiety, depression, concerning oneself with events over which you have no control. Fascinating to witness Sam Harris citing the parable. Wonderful!..
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People will be reading Hitchens a century from now. But Mr Harris may change the world more than any thinker of this era.
The concept of self disappears with the selflessness of the service of others to the best of your ability
wow its amazing to me how he mentions to move your hand and notice how you have no idea how its done.....many years ago after many years of thought , I came to this awareness.....looking at my hand and moving it and saying to myself "I have no idea how im doing that....but I will it to happen"
One of Harris' best talks. In contrast to his earlier work, which was mostly pointing out the numerous negative aspects of religion, this one acknowledges the positive aspects of religion and points out that they need not be linked to historical religious traditions, and seeks to break them off into 'spirituality' as he (re-) defines it.
I'd suggest giving it another watch if your takeaway was that he laid out "the positives of religion". "Extracting the diamond from the dunghill", as he put it, indicates that there are good ideas/insights that are explained or observed within various contemplative traditions but which have nothing inherently to do with religion.
Incredible to me that the existence the dinosaurs, and probably our presence here today, depended on just a few hours in the rotation of the Earth. If the asteroid had crashed into the deeper part of the Pacific far from land most of the impact would have been absorbed, the dinos might still be here, but not us. How fate can turn on such a small wheel, and that includes our existence as a species.
I never, ever thought of that before. That really is mind-blowing, thanks for sharing that thought!
Had a conversation with my cousin who is a devote Christian (catholic) and explained that I don't believe in God simply because I am not convinced. He couldn't get his head around that difference between the two of us. After some time I asked if he considered that the other worshipped deities throughout history were possible and he confidently stated no and was equally confused by me not being convinced. I came to the conclusion that he wasn't distributed that I didn't believe in God but that he was dumbfounded that I didn't believe in his God.
I love Sam Harris...What a legend
Legendary story teller
Darwinism is just another junk religious system
The irony is amazing
Sam Harris.......... THE BEST !!!!
Me: great! I can start working.
TH-cam: challenge accepted! Here’s Sam Harris 🤣
2 hours later - I’m going back to work with a huge smile on my face.
1:22:07 I fully agree that inventing a new term (such as "omega point") to replace "spirituality" to avoid listener from potentially mixing it with religious experiences would be bad. The explanation Harris gives here is superb.
You wrote that wrong I think.
@@anonxnor You're right. I reworded my comment to make it more accurate.
Would love to hear Sam Harris discuss dream states!
If you think the Hubble is amazing just you wait for the JWST
I'm surprised to find myself on the edge of my seat as it travels to it's destination.
_...it's our minds [rather than the circumstances themselves] that will define the character of our experience."_
Something that is a fundamental teaching of the stoics.
After a humid, 19 mile hike in 90°F temps, I sat in a cool mountain creek. I call that experience a "spiritual" one. My friends understand the intended irony in my usage, but I'm careful to avoid using that word around believers, just to make sure they don't get the wrong idea about me.
If all of you are Sam Harris fans and don't have the Waking Up app yet you should definitely give it a try
At around 22:00 he mentions that consciousness can’t mapped in the brain essentially and says there’s nowhere that it all comes together. There literally is though its called the Parieaqueductal Gray. The PAG is literally where consciousness originates. Read Mark Solms’ works on this subject he’s a neuroscientist who has dedicated all of his studies to this exact question. As a matter of fact, Sam mentions Nagel’s “What it’s like…” philosophy and that’s literally exactly what Mark Solms believes in as well. He’s a neuroscientist and psychoanalyst who’s basically bridging the gap between the brain and the mind. Incredible stuff I highly recommend him to anyone.
Edit to say that I am so happy that Sam is talking about this. Reductionism in neuroscience is not doing justice to what it’s like to be a human being. Diagnosing depression with a fucking brain scan instead of talking to the person. It’s insane to me and I’m so glad Sam is talking about this.
Consciousness is the ultimate VR experience
love this.
great introduction to vipasana
I tend to feel that answers to long sought questions aor solutions to problems actually decorate those issues as even more profound as well as our lives.
What about Descartes' "I think, therefore I am"..?
When was this?
If i had to guess, I'd say 2015 or 2016
Right around the time his book Waking Up came out. Not sure when that was but a quick google should do the job.
You wrote your message about a month ago
Everything is relative.
Sorry about that 😂🎉
Date and venue?
A Course In Miracles
The Book
" To say consciousness may only seem to exist, is to admit its existence in full; if things seem anyway at all, that is consciousness." SH
Wonder what Sam's thoughts are of David Bohm.
I've often wondered how any rational, intelligent person can dislike Sam Harris because I know he has his detractors.
I think it's because Sam pulls no punches and calls out ignorance, superstition, and dishonesty with laser-like precision.
I suppose if I fell into one of those categories, I would feel insulted as well.
And since I don't believe in free will, I guess I feel lucky that I somehow stumbled into a life that falls squarely along the path of logic, reason, and the love of all things that are true.
Thank you, Sam for your tireless efforts to tell the truth.
Where and when is this?
Anaheim around 2014 or 2015. He did a series of talks to coincide with the release of his book Waking Up.
What ever this mindfulness thing is I can’t do it, and I think I have that thought over and over when I meditate, but I’m not sure. I’ve been at it for 10 years
this must have been pre covid?? Bad Boy Clips....can you please tell us when and where this was recorded??
2014 or 2015 I believe. He did a series of talks to coincide with the release of his book Waking Up.
Is this new? When is this from?
Not new, but new to TH-cam! It's from 2014 or 2015. He did a series of talks to coincide with the release of his book Waking Up.
Insightful.
I love the way he says ‘fundamental’ it sounds so cute oh my gosh 🥰❤️
What piques my interest is at the very end when imagining a secular canon to us guide us through life with meaningful rituals that rival those of religions.
Why not create a wiki where the 20% of us the “spiritual not religious” folk co-create a library of ceremonies, traditions, philosophy and other guides that rivals every aspect of the actual benefits of religions.
I want to borrow from Hindus and have a day when we can throw colorful dyes all over each other’s white clothes, in this case maybe simply to celebrate the joy and importance of play. I’d make it an official holiday; Play Day.
So I ask this crowd, what would you like to add to the SNR canon? Would you maybe be willing to write up a ritual if the was a wiki?
I’ve been thinking of this for years, and I’ll bet I’m not the only one. So let’s start with some ideas:
New holidays.
Play Day, Gratitude Day and many other “wisdom days”
“Virtue Days” like Truth Day where we have rituals reminding us of the benefits of honesty and it’s sub-virtues such as integrity, and Courage Day that reinforces discipline and authenticity and other aspects of courage.
Death Day, not like Day of the Dead honoring ancestors (which would also be a great one to add) but when we have a ritual that begins in the morning with a birth ritual and ends with a death ritual, reminding us of the brevity of life.
I would imagine that almost everyday would have some kind of ritual noticing of the annual cycles such the fines of planting and harvest, or even daily such as banging a gong just as the sun touches the horizon to wake us up to noticing.
Add your ideas to the canon calendar or Book of ______?
The Book of Now
The Book of Sam
(Just a joke. We’d have to crucify him twice and then wait 100 years to get any traction.)
The Secular Canon
The Natural Bible
What would you like to add? Rites of passages, a funeral ceremony, a ceremonial wedding dance, or the story of Genesis:
“In the beginning there was…potential”
and go on to metaphorically trace the Big Bang
Add your ideas in the comments and maybe contribute to the nascent wiki.
Can someone tell me how i become a yogi
1:46:08 No one is their own author, but they are an editor.
No, they’re actually neither. I know that sounded clever or wise when you said it and wrote it down. But it’s incorrect. There’s in fact no difference between the two, because one does not author their own edits either. If you think that they do, it’s because you’ve misunderstood his argument about free will.
7:30 How so? or What does he mean by this anchored to worst part of culture or superstition? An explanation of his meaning here would be helpful as I am not connecting any specific dots to this statement.
6:33 - if you start from here, he's making the point that there are profound experiences that we can have, which are commonly referred to as "spiritual," and that those experiences historically come with the unnecessary baggage of religion or superstition. This means that skeptics/rationalists may deny themselves these profound experiences because they consider them to be woo-woo nonsense, but if they just pay attention to their experiences/thoughts, then that is all that's necessary. We don't have to believe in any gods or crystal powers, etc, to have these experiences.
@@513morris Oh, I see. Thanks for the clarification. Sam has such an incredible command of language that it begs me to be sure I "get it". (-:
Great talk!
Sam is clearly a master of mindfulness, as evidenced by the fact he didn't lose patience waiting for Yoga McStarbucks to get to the point [1:02:18]
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Everyone who asks a question always has to deliver a dissertation on their life to try to show how exceedingly intelligent they are.
@@usergrade1841 Hahahaha this is so bang on right and very funny 🤣🤣
“I’m a writer…”
@@usergrade1841if I got to ask Sam a question, I would also like to ask a question that was very meaningful to me, and that might require some context. I also get annoyed when people start laying out their life stories, but I also understand it.
If you only heard the audience, you might think this was a comedy skit
I saw him live. I was impressed at the quickness he delivered some one of the funniest lines as a response to a Q&A after the show. This man is the real deal
Theoretical thinking is meditation. It helps to study the evidence beforehand. None thinking is sleep. It helps to rewire the mind. That's how we grow wise. Mature.
Heard the phrase sleep on it. You are an avatar when it comes to consciousness.
Billie Eillish, Adele and Sam Harris. Strange channel but I like.
22:12
i like to think the increase in the chest section for US Americans is from firearms training, where you're taught that the chest is a person's "center of mass"
(and the slightly brighter mouth is from eating all the time)
Analytic Idealism has replaced my religious upbringing quite handily.
What he is saying makes sense. When I believed in a god, I thought we were creatures of duality. That was incorrect. I’m open to changing my mind about the self.
I also object to the term spiritual tho even if I said crazy things coming down from acid trips during my 20’s.
Sam Harris | Belittles Islamic Golden Age
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It wasn't until I heard Joscha Bach speak about the nature of spirituality and its terminology in Lex Fridman's podcast that I started to come around to the usage of the term myself. It might also be of some interest.
th-cam.com/video/P-2P3MSZrBM/w-d-xo.html
There's your problem! Drug abuse. Youre still no wiser today. 🤨
@@mtness1721 that’s not drug abuse
How does anyone care about the mishmash of everything Jordan Peterson has to say when Sam Harris is on offer?
The question about meditating effecting the quality of Sams thining and quickness thinking on his feet I have also wondered about Yuval Noah Harari. I believe he has made claims that his meditation allows him to do things he otherwise would not have been able to do.
The clapping strangely sounded like "free Barrabbas".
1:45:30 so there is no hating someone for their views even though they should be annihilated for those same views (per Harris)?
He’s come a long way since There’s Something About Mary. So proud.
Ben Stiller joke in 2022?
1:00:41 Spirituality in all its forms, including even `secular spirituality`, has within itself the proclivity to tend to believe in something other than what is.
Certainly, the reality that we know is probably a very small part of the forces at play in the universal reality, but the fact is that the proclivity to believe that we are more than what is does not really help anyone in any way to approach the unknown with reasonableness. Instead, it pushes us away from reasonableness... towards the oblivion of illusions.
Four of our 5 senses are in the head.Touch runs in auto-pilot but For purposeful action, the most important senses are our eyes and our ears. Maybe that’s why we consider ourselves in between our eyes and ears.
When you go to sleep... Turn off every light and turn off all sound sources... Just close your eyes and relax... you will still have the sense of living / existing or being in your brain.
@@GStones58 that’s a little like saying go to bed, the sandwich you ate is still in your belly. You see yourself inside your head all day, that’s not going to change for the 10 minutes upon go to bed before sleeping. Of course you are used to that.
@@JavierBonillaC Sandwich? Huh? I think your sandwich had a little something extra in it!
Sam Harris!
Our consciousness is the idle mode or the standby mode of the brain. On the analogy of the cell phone.
This insight is quite helpful to me. In dealing with my delusions.
I concede that this analogy is not a scientific explanation.
Lakshminarayanan
Bengaluru, India.
Thanks for apologizing more than once for how your big brain will confuse us in the first two minutes. Your reassurance you would help us catch up at least a little within the next two hours gave me courage.
There are two types of intellectuals.
Those who learn and those who unlearn.
Only one of them makes progress. And it's not the one who learns.
I believe that ‘god’ is nothing more than conscience. (which explains a lot when people say their “god” told them this that or the other) When you and I die, our/my god/conscience dies with me. No ifs and or buts.
I love Sam but the setting with the glass wall behind the stage is distracting. Why?
1:53:01 angelic voice
Laugh track??
Ignorance and religion, it's a match made in heaven. =)
Is this from 2014?
This guy can really be a comedian
Or a cult leader 😊
Some of us are watching this and consciously thinking about Ben Stiller.
6:20 6:26 6:28 ❤🎉
Stoked 😂
99 Rollers
Deep man 8:24
Stay Safe Stay Free 🎉
I think enlightening people is better than preaching or indoctrinating, whether it is atheism or religion.