Sam Harris: Can we ever be right about right and wrong? (1/2)

Can we ever be right about right and wrong? Sam Harris states that findings in neuroscience and psychology will soon provide an objective framework for morality.

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Beyond Belief 2008
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http://thesciencenetwork.org/programs/beyond-belief-candles-in-the-dark

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[Ragnaros12345]

Expelled is the worst movie ever made and Ben Stein is a giant douche.

[jesse1018]

Expelled had many falsehoods in it, there are many videos here on youtube that debunk it, some better than others. Absence of knowledge doesn't confirm the existance of god, only that we don't have the answer yet.

[SheStillRuns]

Asking science to do what religion has been doing is asking for corrupting science.

[SheStillRuns]

If it perorates, its not science anymore.

[xxxHYPNOTISTxxx]

Yeah, man. It sounds like a groundbreaking & revolutionizing undertaking of perhaps unequaled importance. So at what level are you in your research? Are you asking for money here? Funding to conduct your research? I'd like to hear how you propose to organize and conduct these studies. Hey.. I'm sold. Yeah. Let's do it. Now.... HOW? Set it up. Stop talking about it (unless you're trying to raise money for it) and goddamn DO IT already.

[hasnain26]

@redchango haha thank you. I had to do this analysis on his speech (8 months ago :p) but thank you anyway.

[redchango]

@hasnain26 - Argument? In this lecture, all he's saying that you don't need religion or God to find out whether a moral decision is right or wrong. We just need our brains.

[drgoldteef]

@MrMZaccone My point is that you are akin to Captain Obvious showing up to the conversation 1/3 of a year late with diarrhea of the keyboard. :)

[MrMZaccone]

@drgoldteef And your point is?

[drgoldteef]

@MrMZaccone Thank you for clearing that up with your enlightening message. You're about 4 months late to the conversation, though. To get you up to speed: There are two ways to determine someone's argument. You can, A) Watch the f_king video yourself, or B) Ask someone else to watch it for you in the comments section

[MrMZaccone]

@drgoldteef The word argument has more than one meaning. It can simply be a coherent series of statements leading from a premise to a conclusion. This lecture certainly contains an argument in this sense of the word.

[surroundedbysilly]

Would you kill ant because it crawled on you, IF you knew it had the same level of consciousness as a human? No?

Therefore knowledge (and the means to gain knowledge i.e. science) can influence moral decisions.

Done