[Youtube Review][TED] Science can answer moral questions | Sam Harris

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Playtime Comments : [TED] Science can answer moral questions | Sam Harris

ni*********:

I’ve watched this talk once, every year, since this came out on the TED website (which is a little before it came to YouTube). Only after hearing him speak of this on his podcast in mid November 2019, did I actually catch his tearing up at 11:20. Now I’m tearing up at having this realization.

His fury is well placed. More people should be as livid as he was.

Te******:

11:21 He seemed to have genuine trouble getting through this section, emotionally. He has two daughters. Definitely shows how invested he is in the seriousness of the subject beyond the theoretical.

De****:

9:29 His chess point is BRILLIANT. I got shivers. That's beautiful

gs****:

1:34 “Values are facts about the well-being of conscious creatures” - that’s exactly where he nailed the subject!

Ba***********:

11:48 Is Sam crying here? I think he is and it makes me admire him even more.

Ba********:

Damn!
11:48 it's the first time i have seen Sam get emotional.

Ma**:

19:15

Al*************:

18:20
what i was awaiting for peer reviewed science journal of dopamine etc as a standerd of moral or spmething with scientific method wha...
thank you very much.

Ro*****:

5:52 Actually, I'm pretty sure a supercomputer will one day be able to answer all of those questions! (especially if the core of your talk is correct)

mr********:

11:02 - oop!

 

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Top Comments : [TED] Science can answer moral questions | Sam Harris

Ju**********:

Did Sam just get choked up? Omg i fing love him so much.

Mi***:

This guy is light years ahead of every other human

Do****************:

Came back here to listen again after Sam’s recent podcast. Such a powerful talk. We are so lucky to have Sam speaking out about this. Spread the word, share this video.

ju*********:

The more we share or expose Sam to people, they will awaken. He is one of the best orators ever!

Sa**********:

Can science answer the reason behind sacrificing my life for my friend? Means can science answer overall "Selfless Love".

La****:

Brilliant speech as always, i'm surprised it has so few views.

Ar*******:

How am I just found this video now?? The Moral Landscape and this video answered my doubt and confusions about the divering argument about moral relativism. Thank you so much!

Je****:

I watched this talk many times, everytime I watch it, I understand something new.

Mu*****:

I admire how calm and eloquent he is in whatever situation.

Ta****:

Would you refrain from going to the doctor just because you cannot define health well enough?
Would you refrain from consulting an engineer from building a bridge, just because you are not sure enough where to place it?

Science will never tell you how to behave, but it tells you how to behave when you want to pursue well being.
Of course it can also tell you how to achieve suffering.
The doctor can tell you how to best kill someone.
The engineer can tell you how to destroy the bridge.

Do**:

love u sam , u made my life so simple and better.

ma***************:

Let that detonate in your mind for a moment.

Go********:

"I'm the Ted Bundy of String Theory". I love this man.

An**:

This guy, is F#@ing Brilliant. Why can't people like this be an option to be the leaders of the free world, how did we get stuck with Trump vs HIllary.

Sp**********:

"String theory doesn't resonate with me" hehehe

Id******************:

"Who are we to pretend that we know so little about human well-being, that we have to be non-judgmental about a practice like this?"

PERFECTLY said. I love this man.

De***:

Brilliant discourse. He is absolutely correct. We need more people like him. Respect from India

Ja****:

11:23 Sam trying to hold his emotions back

De************:

So appreciate such an articulate and deep thinker as Sam Harris having the courage to address the illogical assumptions that many in the West accept in the name of diversity.

Mi******:

It is absolutely shameful that corporal punishment by teachers is still legal in 21 states because of its biblical roots. That truly is a national embarrassment.

Al*********:

Thank you. We need a universal concept of human morality. Very wise, very true, very urgent.

De**********:

What a brilliant series of questions the buddy asked in the end?

Ji*******:

Thanks for having captions for the Deaf - found you via Ravi Zacharias - RZIM

Ic*****:

Ham Sarris' "Keep Sleeping" podcast is one of the best on the planet.

Fr***************:

Ben Stiller is sharp af

Br************:

I have yet to hear a better speech or talk on human morality. I listen to this every year because it changed my life forever when I first heard it.

Ma***:

I'm glad to be alive at a time Sam Harris is

su*******:

Sam Harris: "We can no more respect and tolerate vast differences in notions of human wellbeing than we can respect and tolerate differences in the notion of how disease spreads."

2020: "Hold my beer."

Rewatching this video now it strikes me how sad it is that, instead of slowly moving towards Sam's vision of a future where we can apply our scientific understanding to questions of morality, we're instead sliding into a world where we apply our moral ambiguity and relativism to questions of science. We're well and truly screwed.

Mi***********:

Science can be used for deductive reasoning. It can be used to derive the best (if there is a best) possible action given a set of values. That being said, he never actually displayed how science can yield those values. It can't. It gives us an "is", not an "ought". He makes a fatal error in assuming that one "ought" to desire these more "desirable" moral spaces, or that we "ought" to care for the suffering of others, etc... He assumes certain values to judge what "human flourishing" even is, AND that it is preferable (albeit we may grant that that is a sort of self evident idea). He is using values derived not from science to suggest that science can provide these values. These values are an inductive reasoning. Science relies on philosophy, so even the idea that science can provide values relies on values on how to conduct this science.

Jo**:

Very interesting and thought provoking topic and talk. I'd love to play devil's advocate for a moment. We saw the stark stratification present with the evocation from the values of rock, ant, ape. This suggests there is an objective hierarchy of value around conscience, and indeed Sam concentrates his focus on obtainable objective landscapes of morality in the sphere of "well-being" to some extent around the idea of sentience or consciousness, and perhaps around the awareness of being and suffering. However, consider adding a few more items to the list: a coma patient, a person under complete anesthesia, human fetus. With this new set, the moral landscape becomes much harder to partition, and we become far less certain of the wisdom in the attempt.

Although we are tempted to use the analogy of science to see these data points as "facts" or "truth", I'm disinclined to agree. Gravity and electromagnetism simply are, and the truth of them is an inescapable reality. Does morality objectively exist and is it true? What if the well-being of the human race means the eradication of 3/4 of the world population because the Earth's biospheres cannot sustain the burden of the current human population? Does that make the extermination of billions of people a peak in the landscape of morality?

What if we discover that the sun going to inflate to a red giant in precisely 10 days, wiping out all the planetary bodies in our solar system? Should I share my extra bread with a starving man?

 

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