Comments by "Luke Thompson" (@WhiteStoneName) on "Sam Harris: Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #185" video.

Sam Harris should really watch Jordan Peterson talk with Stephen Fry about the potential differences btw empiricism and rationalism. He (and ultimately even Fry) are both rationalists, in the end. The true choice is between mysticism and rationalism.
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@117Industries good reply. Lots of great substance there. I don’t have the energy to respond in kind. But I’d love to talk to someone like you in a more long form way. You seemed like a very well-informed and reasonable person. Appreciate the comment.
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2:37:20 “a mob-based (violent) energy” Can this happen with scientism as well as religion or nationalism? Is tribalism universal? Why or why not?
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2:35:00 ie they’re not as smart as you. You’re perspective on religion is hubristic. You think that religious people are either ignorant, stupid, or plebeians. If the primary way to know things truly is iq, you want to sit atop the mountain, metaphorically, and pronounce Truth. I don’t think that IQ and objectivist fact-seeing is the primary way that we apprehend reality. You also said that earlier when you were talking about evolution and Donald Hoffman. Listen to yourself more. And I don’t mean that snarkily.
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2:33:45 which thoughts of Jesus do you accept and which do you reject? And how do you decide? Then think back to earlier in this conversation when you said that you don’t know where your thoughts come from.
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2:33:45 which thoughts of Jesus do you accept and which do you reject? And how do you decide? Then think back to earlier in this conversation when you said that you don’t know where your thoughts come from.
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13:30 -13:40 regarding that “it could be a neutral monism at the bottom.” Sure. Maybe. Whatever is fundamental must make sense of two things: unity and multiplicity. And the dynamism and relationship between the two cannot be clearly divisive or static. If I may be so bold...trinitarian theology covers this paradoxical conundrum better than anything that I’ve come across.
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