#317 — What Do We Know About Our Minds?

Sam Harris speaks with Paul Bloom about the state of
psychological science. They discuss fiction as a window onto the
mind, recent developments in AI, the tension between
misinformation and free speech, bullshitting vs lying, truth vs
belonging, reliance on scientific authority, the limits of
reductionism, consciousness vs intelligence, Freud, behaviorism,
the unconscious origins of behavior, confabulation, the
limitations of debate, language, Koko the gorilla, mental health,
happiness, behavioral genetics, birth-order effects, living a
good life, the remembered and experiencing selves, and other
topics.


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