Sam Harris: Fearless Among Peers
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- This is my first time seeing Sam Harris. This was directly after Neil Degrasse Tysons "Stupid Design" Speech. Also the moment I had a moment of clarity 3:50.
Sam Harris speaks in between lectures and answers questions of his peers. I named the video "Fearless Among Peers" due to the people present while he was speaking. Roger Bingham, Steven Weinberg, Lawrence Krauss, Michael Shermer, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Scott Atran etc.
These Clips are from the "Beyond Belief: Science, Reason, Religion & Survival" November 5-7, 2006. thesciencenetwo...
Sam Harris is the most articulate speaker I have ever heard. I could listen to him for hours speaking on anything.
I 100% agree
steven pinker comes close
Factual
Sam Harris is one of the world's best thinkers. I could listen to this guy all day.
The way he speaks with such clarity is awe inspiring
wrbluesuby And yet, given this clarity of speech, so many people fall down under the complexity of his arguments and start attacking a misrepresented view of his arguments.
wrbluesuby yes. Agree with him or not but just listening to him is very pleasurable. His sit down with cenk from tyt was epic. Watching his opponent disintegrate into hysterics and lose the argument by default when faced with this kind of calm intelligence.
Hewkii I must disagree. Nothing complex here. People like reza aslan intentionally misrepresent his views and ideas. I think he lays everything out in very simple concrete terms that are fairly easy to grasp if u are willing to listen. But ur point still stands.
Right me too
Why are there so few people at this event? I would bareknuckle fight Leonidas from 300 to be in a room with 5 of the most intellectual minds on the planet.. That was the best Sam Harris I've seen. He was on his A+ game. Brilliant
I would believe in religon to be at this event
following a bare knuckle fight with Leonidas... read the original post. I'll wait for you
You'd lose.
If you read the title, you will see this is a closed debate, with only "high thinkers"
***** haha! Let the moonshiners take over! Somewhat liberating for once watching a debate without hecklers and "moonshine"-questions..
God damn Sam Harris is a fucking logic machine, loved every minute of this.
+Leonardo's Truth Thanks for the insight. Now go read a book.
+Helder Pinto and hot as hell!! sorry, I girled out for a sec.
Jessica Chapman Shame he's already married huh? ahah
Seriously though, I respect someone who finds wits sexier than muscles. :)
His response to reincarnation was pathetic. "All these spooky stories" lol. This guy is religious when it comes to buddhism
+Luke Warm
How is he religious when it comes to Buddhism? He isn't a Buddhist. Just because Buddhism is more tolerable in the sense that it isn't as violent as some other religions, doesn't mean he believes in its tenets on faith.
I love Mr H's delivery - so calm, measured, clear.
Sam Harris has an impeccable vocabulary.
My vocabulary has sincerely improved by listening to Sam Harris, hehe
You say impeccable, I say superfluous. Hehe...just kidding.
A truly riveting melody of verbiage which tantalizes my pterodactyl impeccably
I think you have him confused with Jordan Peterson@@UhYeahWhateverDude
@@acardinalconsideration824you misspoke
Everyone lauds Sam for his intellect. Honestly, I think his greatest virtue and strength is his inexhaustible patience. He is unflappable.
Sam Harris is not a liar, a fraud, or a creep.
@Tiktaalik Dismissing those who disagree with your ideology as
illegitimate, is not persuasive. Even with their obvious human
imperfections, both Sam and Jordan have useful things to say
if you care to listen with a receptive ear.
But is he unfappable ?
@Tiktaalik nice try, cenk.
@Tiktaalik There are hundreds of hours of Sam Harris on TH-cam. Find an example that supports your statement.
Sam's patience is his greatest strength
"Sam Harris is a brilliant man.."
C. Hitchens
Hitch passed the torch to this man
No, he did not. Hitchens had a very limited ability to present logical arguments, or to come up with powerful analogies. Hitchens was not nearly the debater that a lot of his fans would like to believe. Harris is much better.
jtet rfs
Passing the torch upward is still passing the torch.
Hitch, by the way, was a boss. He was a logical, critical thinker with a flair for dramatic and incisive writing and wordplay. Perhaps he wasn't the best debater on the planet, but I would argue that he was the best we had on our side.
Daniel L. Craig is no intellectual slouch; I can't help but feel Hitch performed better against him on the debate stage than did Harris. There is real value in the sort of rhetorical acuity and agility that Hitch wielded so gracefully, and we would be wise to remember that.
Before anyone says it, by the way, it is entirely possible to swing a sledgehammer gracefully.
@@jtetrfs5367 u are wrong about that. Hitch was every bit the polemicist we saw him to be, different from harris admittedly, hitch loved theatre and a turn of phrase where harris simply wants to get down to ethical or scientific bedrock but what a team they made. There's one particular debate on the afterlife with hitch and harris u should check out.
Sam Harris for president!
Evan WIlliams I’m sure there are some great thinkers in the USA corridors of power so yes why the hell don’t we see them in the hot seat . Does it expose the thinking in your average or below average voter .
@@wombat2248 Harris, Harris 2024 LOL
@@kalmansovari6878 harris 2028
I used to agree. I agreed 100% when you wrote that comment.
As always Sam Harris and his friends clearly , logically and articulately clarify and frame the real discussion
This is an amazing speech. I hope that Sam is still sharing his ideas for many years to come.
This aged well
Thank you for keeping this channel going. It means so much to so many people.
Wow! What a great lecture series. Thank you for bringing this to my attention and linking it in the description box.
I just chewed through the first three sessions in short order and look forward to hearing the rest.
Including the answers to his questions or the statements eliciting his responses would have greatly increased the value of this video.
Good lord I love this talk. This is part of the reason Harris has mostly moved on from religious critique across the board. There is literally nothing more to say regarding what's wrong with deference to religion that he hasn't already made abundantly clear.
The voice of reason
Rival interpretations of the plays of Shakespeare. His analogies are brilliant!
Sam Harris is the master of analogies. His comparisons always nail the point so well.
Sam is one if three athiests that woke me up out if Christianity Hitchens n Dawkins the other two.
Check out Sean Carroll as well (and to some degree, Lawrence Kraus).
Daniel Dennett is awesome too. deGrasse Tyson has some good talks as well.
Yes. Dennet. With other 3 they make up the 4 horseman. And they are favorite punching bags for left and right. Tyson is a lot less militant but no less convincing.
Try Fry, too, sir.
Krauss! Fellow Atheists still questioning each other and their views. I love intelligent people speaking to one another.
So very true, well said Sam, How could any fool argue with such rationalism and realism you set forth?
Thank you Sam for educating us all,
Red haired women analogy is superb!!
I'll bet Scott Atran didn't think so, haha
I could listen to Sam endlessly. He is a truely great man
Wow. What an amazing collection of minds in one room.
We need politicians that smart and logical.
this is mind-porn.
WELL MET.
Is it not? To be totally honest that kind of intelligence is soo fuckable. I envy his wife.
i was very pleased to scroll down and not find any ben stiller jokes.
But all he had to do was turn left.
Pints of Guinness he is a better speaker than actor... :)
I'd like to second what yashaouchan said - thanks for keeping the channel going, particularly because it keeps alive the memory of an enormous personality, a man whose simple presence on earth and in modern society was in itself enough to make the world, at least to me, a more reassuring place.
I didn't agree with absolutely everything Hitch said, it'd be boring if I did, but he was a guy who lived about as close an approximation of the 'good life' as I've seen. Cheers.
Sam Harris is a genius!
Holy f... I’ve never seen Sam this passionate....this must be the early days...
Sam Harris even makes other public intellectuals sound inarticulate
The link to the whole session is in the description.
THIS world is not irrational,as this gent sitting next to SAM has said ,i read Quran from the age of 7 to 15/16 many many times(i could nearly recite half of it by heart),when i went to college and learnt the reality of nature,my believes in religion/Allah and Mohammed went with a puff of smoke,iwas fully conditioned in islam from 7 yrs to 15/16 years of age,only education rescued me from these ALLAHS,and their funny stories and all the other raz-ma-tazs.i think any body with a little common sense +some scientific education can come out of these tooth fairy faiths.i am now 63 yrs of age.my children are same as me.the gist of this story is that if one ordinary pakistani born can live a life FREE OF THIS MR ALLAH,ALL OTHERS CAN ALSO ,IF THEY TRY.
muhammed shafiq I would like to talk to you Mohammad I have similar story. My Facebook is mike.dawoud. Hope you message me
"It isn't true that people can't be talked out of their beliefs!" He is absolutely right.
it's scary and uncomfortable but it can be done.
The thing about Sam Harris is, Sam Harris is smarter than you. But we can partake in his intelligence and research and learn a thing or three
I don't know about smart, but far, far more educated than atleast myself and I listen to the man alot.
You're not sure that he's smart? Wow.
Dawkins, Tyson, Harris all in one room!!? that is too much awesomeness!
Sam Harris Please Teach and Stay the way you are 💜💜💜
how in the hell have i missed this? I've watched hours upon hours of Harris' stuff, canned talks, debates, the joe rogan interview (which i couldn't finish due to Rogan being an unrivaled assclown) even another talk he did for TSN, but oh man... there were some gems in this. His 2-front defense around 29:00~ against a naive Tyson and a self-interested Atran was magical. Harris truly is on another level in how his brain works. Unparallelled.
I wish they hadn’t cut back the others responses
I'm gratified you enjoyed our exchange of ideas.
I guess I have some perspective since I was once a devout Christian. I know how it feels to tackle issues in life as rational and faithful person. However, at the end my rationality couldn't co-exist with my faith, one had to go or I would find no peace. It wasn't easy either. But in the end that's all that matters. We all try to do right by ourselves and each other the best we can. The least we could do is not make assumptions easy on ourselves.
Sam's vocabulary is crazy!
Thank you for making Sam's point clear to those who read this post.
EXACTLY!!! Thank you for seeing that finally. I feel like you really had a break through here, congratulations!
I’m glad I’m not in the conversation. These guys are effing smart!
His words are delicious.
I could listen to Sam Harris all day long.
That's a great analogy he made about software.
Brains are computers, and religion is the Operating System.
Too much awesome people in this room
I appreciate Sam Harris' views as they are also aligned with how I view things. I come from a very different background and yet have journeyed my way to similar thoughts as he. Thanks for sharing!
[...] it is an introspective science of your own experience. The meditation and mindfulness aspects of practice of the 8 Fold Path are there to help you realise and understand your own experience by, not conforming to doctrines blindly, but discovering your 'self' and the nature of 'self' for yourself. In short, Buddhist philosophy is at it's core there as a tool to help you make your own mind up and alleviate the psychological conditions of the suffering we cause ourselves.
Go to The Science Network website. It's all archived there under the "Beyond Belief" series. This is from the 2006 session IIRC.
Q: does anyone know where I can find the part of this vid that was edited out (I'm not condemning that choice - this is a video about what Mr. Harris says after all) But I would like to know exactly what he is responding to at 23:23
thank you so much for having shared this
Sam is my favorite!
Yeah! love him. Count me in😊
oh so somebody DID do it.. went ahead and collected all Sam's bits from that convention. Thank you so much :-)
It's actually for sale. Link in the desc.
I never saw a debate so entirely characterized by good will.
Truth sir, I love that he is a doctor of the brain also, he has the credentials to back up absolutely everything he is saying.
Sam Harris owns the place. Saying this despite the fact of i love all the folks there.
It's a shame a lot of these kinds of videos have so few views compared to other nonsense on youtube.
There are few who can off the cuff express themselves and complex ideas as well as Mr. Harris.
Is there a full version of this session?
[the moment I had a moment of clarity 3:50] I almost cried afters this. You have a video to remember your "moment of clarity". Mine was in a forum on the Internet long time ago, some guy talking about the belief in afterlife, but I can´t remember exactly what he wrote or where it is. In an instant you get that hit in your brain, your entire worldview collapses and you reborn a complete different person, knowing that your life and the way you look to the universe will never be the same again.
i agree, or i'd rather believe, in the very least, of many of your points! however, jimi does make a good point in saying that there is a lack of evidence in some of the claims. your defense seems to be that in order to understand things such as other dimensions, one must experience them oneself directly. i don't have access to any drugs, and i had no luck with meditation (it just made me calm). what would you recommend me to do to have those spiritual experiences you mentioned?
I appreciate that the total conference was too long to post together but it really hurts the context & intelligibility of what Harris is saying to cut off other people's response. Thanks for posting but maybe next time do a series of point/counter-point separate videos.
Again, thanks for posting :D
I wish we could have seen the responses to Mr. Harris' points. Nothings helps to understand your own arguments than knowing how other's criticize them.
Where can I find the entire video?
When people express the idea that we live in an irrational world, and instead of trying our best to spread science and reason, it's best to mitigate the harm that an irrational world does, I just scratch my head. I, upon growing into an 18 year old person who surfs around the interwebz have been persuaded by reason. Had I not been persuaded by reason, I'd probably be debating whether God exists or not at this moment. I'm past that though, and it's thanks to you guys. So keep at it.
Does anyone know who the gentleman arguing with Harris is? I think it was mentioned that his first name is Scott but there is no mention of a last name.
Confucius' teaching emphasised on benevolence (loving fellow humans) and his rule: do not do unto others what you do not want others to do unto you. Confucian scholars/court officials, through the centuries, exhorted/counselled the emperors to love the people just like their own sons and daughters. The magistrates/judges of ancient China were, in Chinese terms "parental judges" (fu mu guan, in romanised pin yin).
P.S I have listened to many Mckenna and Hancock talks here on youtube and I find them very interesting/enjoyable to listen to and I respect a lot of their theories and ideas.
No one is trying to argue that morality should be based on "societal norms". Sam is simply saying some social/religious beliefs are more dangerous and allow for harm more than others.
I would also like to point out that society IS harmed in your scenario. Limiting harm to individuals is rather fundamental to human survival. All actions have consequences and in your scenario there was a witness (the aggressor).
The best forty minutes on youtube . Only one person could have had it better : Ultra Great Hitchens .
is the full video of this available somewhere? i'd love to hear what NDT and richard dawkins' had to say in this discussion as well.
Where is the uncut version???
"...your dentistry comment was a simile,..."
Yes, that is exactly right. Straight from wikipedia on Simile (starred for emphasis):
"Unlike a metaphor, a simile can be as ***precise as the user needs it to be***, to explicitly predicate a single feature of a target or to vaguely predicate an under-determined and open-ended body of features. Empirical research supports the observation that similes are more likely to be used with explicit explanations of their intended meaning;..."
I've always been impressed with Sam Harris's wit and demeanor. Even if I don't always agree with his views, he always presents them in an approachable (albeit ascerbic) way
"furthermore, true reason invariably leads me to God."
Your "reasoning" ought to as it is broken. Makes perfect sense and I don't believe many would argue with your statement.
Because the whole conference was I think around 12 hours spread over 3 days.
I agree with SH that some people *have* been argued out of beliefs that they held without evidence, but I would make two observations:
1) It's typically *not* something a person comes to instantly--sorry, there's too much mental/emotional baggage in the way. Usually people have to let the ideas "percolate" for a while.
2) I don't think that percolating process has ever been *sped up* by giving someone those ideas--and in the process calling him/her an idiot. Disrespect faith; respect *people*.
Yes, you are correct.
1:18 has to be one of the best analogies I've heard concerning this topic.
This conference seems to have been awesome... at least it should have been, judging by the attendants :-)
Isaiah 55: 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
He inferred it but it wasn't as specified as it was in the bible. It was abstract in phrasing but this is an accurate assessment that he did coin the idea (perhaps not first, years before him someone may have realized this) of the golden rule to the best of our knowledge first.
Being straight does not automatically make you beneficial to society either. You have to contribute to the society in which you live in one way or another, so that you effect a positive change in it. That is the only way you can class yourself as "beneficial" to society.
ill look for it and will surely come across it again, i remember one was at the beginning of an hour + speech
It would still be nice to have the full discussion, both sides...does anyone know where I can find the unedited version?
Wonderful speech from SH. When you encounter the ridiculous, the correct response is to ridicule it.
The lady at 11:00 had the same face I made while watching this. What a wonderful example of a rational thinker he is.
Harris exudes a calm and formidable intellect. I would not want to be on the receiving end of one of his rebuttals.
I knew a Buddhist monk who described Buddhism as essentially "a way to happiness" which is religious, but not a religion, and philosophical, but not a philosophy
As a former Muslim, I was at first taken aback by his comments on how Islam compels people to violence. But he is right that Buddhist have not reacted in the same way to oppression. I think his argument misses a subtlety which upset many people, which is that it is not just Islam but also Christianity which provoke such action. The reason for this behavior is coded withing the genetics of the religion, that is the directive to convert others / justification of violence.
This can be done on grounds of personal experience, not based on arguing about words with provocateurs. For example, People who honor Christ in their hearts have survived cancer by 40 years. 1Peter 3: 15 but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you..
That's a good question. TH-cam is scaring me with it's accuracy, and inaccuracy of what I want to watch.
A debate where NDT is the lay person asking questions? Damn.
In this precise case, the reseon they get better results comes absolutly not from the religious aspect, but from the fact that the sociology of the pupils in those schools and in the public schools, are different (they can afford to pay), and it relies also on the fact that public schools get less and less budget, people go more and more to private schools, witch get more money etc.
Wait, he made a very valid question. How come you think random chance can't give origin to life?