An Evening with Richard Dawkins - Featuring Sam Harris - Night 1
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Join Richard Dawkins as he shares the stage with special guest Sam Harris for a sold-out engagement at the Alex Theatre in Los Angeles. In this rare conversation between two brilliant and provocative thinkers, Dawkins and Harris explore a wide array of critical topics and tackle challenging questions. They discuss the implications of new scientific advancements, the threat of religious extremism, approaches to finding meaning and purpose without faith, and of course - speaking just before the U.S. presidential election - a little bit of politics.
This talk took place on Tuesday, November 1st, 2016.
I love listening to these two men speak. I miss Hitchens so much too.
He was another treasure...
Indeed 😔
Me too.
Sam has a very relaxing presentation style. Almost hypnotic at times. I love Dawkins , Hitchens and Fry when they talk so passionately but I'm really enjoying catching up on mr Harris debates.
Aristotle should've had the same enchanting mantra
Because he's a meditator
Sam's right eyebrow is the answer to everything
It does not necessarily mean if someone able to make his right eyebrows same like Sam, he gets all the answers
Its the time he spends dedicated to what he wants to do, makes him what he is
@@souravbasu6285 It's a joke
@@souravbasu6285 wooosh
And his tune talking with his sentences always ending on a higher note
The world needs millions of people like these two. I hope to see one day the brilliance that was Christopher Hitchens manifest itself into another human being.
There probably are a million of them ....thats not even 1%
@Pood De Screwch
In lots of countries there's 20% and more. More and more people have no affiliations at all.
Anymore science-fiction?
People like these are only available in Caucasian and Jewish forms.
Hitchens was a fraud. He said he wants religion to keep going because he would have nothing to argue about. He wasn't joking either. Richard Dawkins called him on it aswell. So Hitchens didn't really stand for anything except his own ego.
2:51 There you go.
Thanks
Thanks
Thanks mate👍
there they go
Thanks
I was one of the camera operators on this...was a fun night and great conversation. Should happen again!
@@lancemgy I don't remember anything saying that video was allowed beyond the professional crew, but could've been idk. I can feel your pain to a degree. Good rule when wanting to film events like these is to always reach out to management to volunteer or offer your services for the job. That's what I did and it worked out. If everyone with a camera came in trying to setup a tripod with decent angles, it would be a nightmare to those who are there on a professional level. But yeah, fun times!
Hi.please i am depressed i need help
@@rahimjibril1332 You should find a camera operator near you and talk to him. All the best 🙏
@@svenred6eard757 hello
Nice flex bro
great to see modern thinkers on this platform, amazing discussion.
He's just a common F00L.
Richard Dawkins teaches the universe came from "literally nothing."
Real science says nothing does nothing. Real science says if there was something there already it must fit with the evidence of what we know. We know the 1LT says there's a conservation of energy. It can change forms and neither can be created or destroyed. Creation cannot happen by natural means. The 2LT has various aspects, one being the universe is winding down, entropy. Usable energy is becoming less usable, so at one point usable energy was at its max. This all points to a supernatural creation, by a supernatural creator at a certain point in which matter, space and time were created. When I read how it can happen otherwise, ALL the fools resort to science-fiction. Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it.
We can't get anything from "literally nothing." We can't even get science without God. The laws of nature only can come from a Lawgiver, God.
God is the reason for us and all we have.
ruclips.net/video/JiMqzN_YSXU/видео.html
“However improbable the origin of life might be, we know it happened on Earth because we are here.” -Richard Dawkins.
We only get life from life...the law of biogenesis. We can't get anything without God.
The odds are NOT there.
ruclips.net/video/W1_KEVaCyaA/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/yW9gawzZLsk/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/ddaqSutt5aw/видео.html
No, the eye did not evolve into various eyes. Your mere chance mutations are absurd.
ruclips.net/video/X7h2HWcTwa4/видео.html
Even Dawkins admits we can't know what is true because of natural selection...
The God Delusion, “Since we are creatures of natural selection, we cannot totally trust our senses. Evolution only passes on traits that help a species survive, and not with preserving traits that tell a species what is actually true about life.”
Oh, but Dawkins knows what's true about life...killing those who don't meet his expectations for living.
dailycaller.com/2021/05/19/richard-dawkins-down-syndrome-roe-v-wade/
Two of my favorite people to listen to. I love this.
It is truly remarkable to hear two profoundly insightful and intelligent persons who are experts in their own fields discuss these deep questions and concerns and to which are contributing so widely toward enlightening our worlds citizenry ! BRAVO !
in what field is Sam Harris an expert?
The two out of four horsemen.
I miss Hitch, in all possibility, we all do.
@@Seeds-Of-The-Wayside He died of esophageal cancer in 2011.
@@Seeds-Of-The-Wayside you must be new here. haha.
look up his farewell... its terribly sad
@@TheIfifi That really sucks. The world could have used another 20 or 30 years of him
Sam harris is a crypto Zionist
@@positronhaberdashery1583 the fuck are you even smoking xD
Let’s give praise to Odin for these two wonderful men. Let’s thank Athena for granting them such powerful wisdom. May Vishnu protect them and protect us all.
Glory be to Ninkasi !!
what if these two people themselves made them wonderful ? what if they themselves developed such powerful wisdom ? what if they themselves protect them ? what if they are the only, painting the Glory ? with whatever is available on this planet
@@souravbasu6285 Pretty sure that was a joke.
Plus, we can never fully credit a person with their effectiveness as biological coincidence is not within their (or our) control... yet. But yeah, they certainly put a lot of effort into their thoughts when compared to the average, casual buffoon.
U welcome 😊
I was reasoned out of my faith, though reason wasn't the only element, and it took a long time. Speak reason even when it's not received, because I heard the evidence against faith over the many years I was a Christian, and though I argued against it, I still heard it, and over time it had a cumulative effect on me. The other main ingredient was finding myself removed from the religious echo chamber for a while.
All you really have to give up is the belief that the people who raised you are sane. Once you are willing to let go of that, losing god is easy.
Isaiah 53 (written 700 years before Jesus birth), Isaiah 7:14 (same), Zechariah 11:13 (480 BC), Micah 5:2 (700 BC), Genesis 22:16,17,18 (2066 BC?), Proverbs 30:4 (960BC?) Daniel 3:25 (540BC), Psalm 22 (1000 BC)-------------google these scriptures--------live & learn--------Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!🎀🎀🎀🎀🎀🎀
1:29:49 Oh the irony. 2020 would like to say hello to 2016
Came looking for this comment 😜 ^
Funny how a throwaway line became a true nightmare for us all!
I'm colorblind, and I've been wearing mismatched socks since the 80's. I steal a line from Steven Wright and tell them they do match. I go by thickness.
I’m not colorblind I just grab whatever socks are in front of me
@Fainer Fug I’d still get them mixed up.
Even that's unnecessary: Socks match as long as wearing them does not overly stimulate one foot when compared to the other. They're there to keep the feet warm, not to win a beauty contest. :)
My Dad, a mormon man and degreed mechanical engineer, brought home Dawkins’ first book, “The Selfish Gene” when I was 17. Being an avid reader, I would read the books I checked out, the true crime books my Mom checked out and the books my Dad checked out. Dawkins’ work inspired me greatly and my Dad and I had wonderful discussions about whether the idea of memes that Dawkins introduced in “The Selfish Gene” held any weight. I thought they did; my Dad was skeptical. It took my Dad a little longer than myself to recognize that religion paints a delusional picture of reality, but he did eventually get there! ❤️ Richard Dawkins. He helped many formerly religious rational men like my Dad overcome the dogmas they were raised in.
Following Jesus Christ leads to "Eternal life" and "Everlasting Joy".
Following Dawkins leads to severe punishment at Judgment Day, and "Everlasting Destruction"....
Your choice!!!
@@earnestlycontendingforthef5332 you are deceived! It's following the Magical unicorn that leads to eternal life! Do i have proof? Of course not. You just need to welcome the unicorn to your heart and you will know that im speaking the truth. We dont need evidence. Have faith in the unicorn.
@@elly3359 ..............Following Jesus Christ leads to "Eternal life" and "Everlasting Joy".
Following Dawkins leads to severe punishment at Judgment Day, and "Everlasting Destruction"....
Your choice!!!
"2 Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.
3 Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever."
Daniel 12:1-3 (ANIV)
Why follow a dead loser, when you can follow the risen Lord and be granted "Everlasting life" and "Everlasting Joy" in the age to come.
Churches exist to reconvict because no one can keep deluding themself without external aid . Its my opinion that no one believes nonsense for long , eventually reason triumphs .
@@earnestlycontendingforthef5332 funny you say that, since you follow a dead loser who promised you an afterlife
One of the benefits of youtube is the ability to be share this kind of discussions with the world. We need more of this. Keep fighting ignorance.
Thanks to Richard Dawkins I´m an atheist. Mr. Dawkins reasoned me out of it.
What made you see reason?
I like the way you put it "reason out of it". Good for you!
@@estefania517 😊 You must be born again to see the kingfom of God." Jesus
@@MegaSage007 🤨🤐🤣🤣🤣
@@estefania517 🙄 Romans 1:28, St Matthew 25:41, Psalm 52:5 "God will destroy you forever."
Professor Richard Dawkins is my hero along with Christopher Hitchens. I just regret I wasn’t aware of Christopher before he passed because I was brought up a Jehovah’s Witness. I have my God Delusion book ready to be signed after locked down!
he wouldn't like to be your hero :p like hitchens. they would want you to have your own glorious life
Can’t deny that!
Why do you want it signed, isn’t the knowledge and information within the book enough?
Elton’s glass or Elvis’s guitar (some people might know what I’m referring to)
Wonderfully enjoyable and easy going conversation, but also really thought provoking. Love both guys dry, wicked wit and humour 😁
This is the most I've seen Sam Harris smile.
Even if he didn't smile before or smiled less, He did very good job. This is undoubtedly wonderful job he did, but previous non-smiling or less smiling Sam Harris did undeniably helpful job for humanity
Watching this, realized I've been using the word "compelled" wrong my whole life. Probably always meant "impelled". Thanks Richard.
Whenever Sam Harris is talking, it's always worth listening.
Witty speculation. If you like that
When he talks, not whenever, unless you don't know.
Whenever I got up this morning, it was raining.
So wrong.
😎
I’ve listened to him enough to know that he’s intellectually dishonest. Articulate? Yes. Coherent? Yes. Informative? No.
Not articulate nor coherent lol. The guy doesn’t even know fallacies.
@@eddieclark9802 speakspeak.com/resources/english-grammar-rules/conjunctions/whenever
"The conjunction whenever means ‘every time that’ or ‘any time that’." Any time that Sam Harris is talking, it's always worth listening. Am I missing something here?
These people are so special..
And we need them more than ever.
We need Dawkins more than ever. Who will take up the mantle when these guys retire? We need a new generation of intellectuals who’re willing to get up and fight the immoral religious right.
It is Dawkins who is immoral. His support for Israel even as it massacres thousands of children shows his moral degeneracy.
it is really great that Dawkins turns active again after a break....how beautiful he thinks....
Thank you so much for uploading this!
So perfect the way this ended with a tribute (unscripted) to Christopher Hitchens. The only way this evening could have been even more inspiring would be if we could have had him there.
DAMN!- I guess I'm STILL not over mourning his leaving us.
Change allegiances! You may start filling better.
These two have perfectly complimentary energies
I'm an observant Jew but I do enjoy listening to Richard Dawkins lecture (Sam Harris too). Both insightful men.
As an Atheist I really get down with Rabbi Singer; he gets to the point at light speed and refutes Christianity with ease, I call it "a zinger from Singer", almost makes me want to wear a yarmulke when he speaks.☺
@@BeachsideHank I love him lol, dude dismantles evangelism beautifully.
May be it's my selfish genes that want people like Richard, Sam and many others live very long lives.
Dawkins used to be a hero of mine. Still a great science communicator.
Pfffft.
"'gonna', we're not going to put that into artificial intelligence, we're not gonna"
auto-generated subtitles: "we are not going to"
me: it has started!
Thank you so much for this. I absolutely appreciate these conversations.
9:46 thank you for doing what you do. You have no idea how much you have changed my life.
Also, people can be reasoned out of their faith. I’m a living example of that.
Hopefully one day all humanity will abandon the religious beliefs and we will have a much better world.
Isaiah 53 (written 700 years before Jesus birth), Isaiah 7:14 (same), Zechariah 11:13 (480 BC), Micah 5:2 (700 BC), Genesis 22:16,17,18 (2066 BC?), Proverbs 30:4 (960BC?) Daniel 3:25 (540BC), Psalm 22 (1000 BC)-------------google these scriptures--------live & learn--------Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!🎀🎀🎀🎀🎀🎀
Some can and some cannot. Look at db 7777. Not much hope there.
Mr. Dawkins is the only person who comfortably counters Sam's arguments like AI being capable of suffering more pain. Sam is a beast.
I wish Richard would discuss Brexit with Douglas Murray !
Love these two
This is needed more now than ever.
*I've seen this discussion before but am eagerly gonna watch it again.*
He's right about the socks. I've been an emancipated odd-pair socks user for years now.
I've enjoyed so much over the years listening to intelligent people who think outside the box, I had to leave Twitter yesterday CJW , twitters toxicity and lack of realism was painful.
BTW did this just get republished, I've watched this a few years ago or have I been living on another planet...?
In this audience we may have enough information to help save some of our fellow humans to stop being afraid of the world & of living - the book that someone made u choose is one of millions & the best r yet 2 come
Nothing better than a friendly conversation / debate
Yes!
I always found it interesting that Sam is totally into meditation and Richard sees little incentive to do it!
Sam is a grifter and richard needs to stay in his lane.
@@naughteedesign in what way?
@@mrcoatsworth429 harris's análisis of "meaning" is a grift, his whole schtick is "we should avoid "harm" (paraphrased) yet misses the entire point... that being existence is full of harm and tradeoffs, bear your cross young man and up the hill you go etc.
I don't think people should be asked to "stay in their lane" so to speak, however Dawkins should most definitely stay the hell away from politics, he is an embarrassment (as is Harris), my god harris's TDS is now legendary, the guy recently came out in SUPPORT of censoring the president of the United States....that's a pretty hot take from a so called "thinker".
pls minute?
@@xElleRyuzakiu wot? Lost ur mommy?
I went to this show the following evening that this was taped (my tix for 11/02/2016). I have to say that I wish we had more time with Richard and Sam dialoging; on our evening, it seemed we had a bunch of folks selected to ask questions that did nothing but ask repetitive questions -- if you watch any of these sort of engagements or related debates, the questions were already answered ad-nauseum. I was disappointed with many of the people selected to ask, seemed pre-arranged; I made attempts to ask but she (looked like it was Robyn E. Blumner on the bottom floor, right side aisle) kept passing me on the aisle as if I was not there. Anyway, it was worth hearing these great men speak, only the Q&A part kind of waned.
These guys really are my inspiration.
This is an epic exchange. Thank you!
This was surprisingly hilarious throughout their discussion. 🤣
These guys are always very witty but this conversation was exceptionally funny. Better than 99% of actual comedy!
Your brain is pathetic as theirs. We couldn't have got all this on its own. You sure don't think much.
The 1LofT states that energy can't be created or destroyed, it can't happen naturally. One aspect of the 2LofT shows that the universe is winding down, usable energy is becoming less usable. It is clear creation had to be done supernaturally at some point yet it is still denied because people are just too proud to accept that, among other things.
Bravo! What these two do seems simple. Speak earnestly, honestly, eloquently, and with no agenda other than to do just that. Why does this seem so rare? The discussion about Hitchens had me tearing up.
Thank you for doing what you do.
Top video!!
Ooh lovely. Thank you.
Always an interesting conversation. A lot of current time relevant topics covered here. Thanks team!
Thank you guys for your honesty and your humanity to share your wisdom...my life wouldn't have been saved from repeated mistake of praying for miracles if it wasn't for u guys...and Hitch.... And all thanks to Bill Maher and his show....
I take it you also know of Matt Dillahunty. Otherwise i recommend checking him out. Absolute heavyweight skeptic.
I also go with two different socks - funnily enough, I have two more socks in my drawer that are similar
What a beautiful conversation. I thoroughly enjoyed this one, focused on content, and exchange of interesting opinions, no recurring to cheap rhetoric of irony and personal attacks. Two heroes I deeply admire. Thank you for putting it to public domain.
Yes, your tiny brain loves to listen to other tiny brains who think we got all this on its own.
The 1LofT states that energy can't be created or destroyed, it can't happen naturally. One aspect of the 2LofT shows that the universe is winding down, usable energy is becoming less usable. It is clear creation had to be done supernaturally at some point yet it is still denied because people are just too proud to accept that, among other things.
I have enjoyed a high-quality tertiary education which has equiped me to think well enough and to express my thoughts adequately.
However I feel so stupid in the presence of superb minds such as Dawkins, Hitchens et al.
Perhaps if I had been exposed to minds such as these at an earlier age I would have thought much better and further.
Then again, the old story is true. The best time to have planted a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is today.
Thank you so much Richard, for salvaging my mind from the superstitious nonsense that is religion, guiding me as you have to the calm enlightenment of atheism.
That's the whole point.
Not so calm if you are able to think with your own head.
Sam should get the next RD award🤩
My solution to the sock problem is pretty simple. All my socks are black and of a certain type. If I get a hole in one sock, just throw it away, and keep the other. It's bound to happen again anyway, and then I have a pair again. As the sock drawer gets thinned out, I just buy more black socks of the same kind 😂
Same here. One problem down in my life :)
Sam’s attitude that books are hard to read only proves that many authors pad the books they write! Brevity is important!
The problem with science not convincing people from their beliefs is beliefs are based mostly in feelings, and science can be seen as very cold "You die and for the rest of eternity you are non-existent.". To truly change someone you have to pierce at the DEEP DEEP core of their feelings, which is very emotionally hard and takes alot of time usually. That is why you can't just walk up to someone using reasoning to create peace.
Isaiah 53 (written 700 years before Jesus birth), Isaiah 7:14 (same), Zechariah 11:13 (480 BC), Micah 5:2 (700 BC), Genesis 22:16,17,18 (2066 BC?), Proverbs 30:4 (960BC?) Daniel 3:25 (540BC), Psalm 22 (1000 BC)-------------google these scriptures--------live & learn--------Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!🎀🎀🎀🎀🎀🎀
Sam is way way more conscious than Richard.
Im down with the sock theory for years now
This is who should be running our countries.
Glad to see he's still going strong.
Not for long now he's 79, he is laughing now , soon GOD will be laughing.
@@mrBobcaruana1956 of course. Which God may I ask?
@@mrBobcaruana1956 ah yes, the wonderful peaceful and loving religious nutcases.
@@xehP says the man who believes that a hundred foot whale once was a land animal the size of a goat; Talk about fairy tales, this one beats the RAP. Long live Kent Hovind.
While Dr dawkins with all due respect is what a wholesome light n gentle hearted human
Learned n reasoning as much as can b
Omggg hell yess
Here is proof that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the only powerful living God..read on
The Jews Are Proof that God exist
Only 70 years ago! The Jews were taken to slaughter like sheep.
🔵 60 years ago!
🔵 No country. No Army.
Seven Arab countries declared war on the small Jewish state, only a few hours after its creation!
🔵 we were 650,000 Jews against the many millions in the Arab world!
There was no strong IDF(Israel Defense Forces).
No powerful air force to save us but only brave Jewish people with nowhere else to go.
🔵Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia all attacked at the same time.
🔵the country that the United Nations gave us was a 65 % desert.
🔵 35 years ago! We fought the three most Powerful armies in the middle east, and we swept them in six days.
We fought against various coalitions of Arab countries, which had modern armies and many Soviet weapons, and we have always beaten them!
Today we have:
🔵 a State (Country)
🔵 an Army,
🔵 a Powerful Air Force,
🔵 A State-of-the-Art Economy with exports worth billions of dollars.
🔵 Intel - Microsoft - IBM & many high-tech companies develop cutting edge products in Israel
🔵 our doctors receive awards for medical research.
🔵 we make the desert bloom, and sell oranges, flowers and vegetables all over the world.
🔵 Israel has sent its own satellites into space!
🔵 three satellites at the same time!
🔵 We are proud to be at the same rank as:
🔵 The United States, which has 250 million inhabitants,
🔵 Russia, which has 200 million inhabitants,
🔵 China, which has 1.3 billion inhabitants;
🔵 Europeans - France, Great Britain, Germany - with 350 million inhabitants.
🔵 the only countries in the world to send objects into space!
🔵 and say that only 60 years ago,
🔵 we were led, ashamed and hopeless, to slaughter!
🔵 we have experienced the smoking ruins of Europe,
🔵 we have won our wars here in Israel with less than nothing
🔵 we built our little "Empire" from nothing.
Who's Hamas to scare us?
🔴 to terrify us?
You make us laugh!
🔴 Passover was celebrated;
Let's not forget what Passover is:
🔴 we survived Pharaoh,
🔴 we survived the Greeks,
🔴 we survived the Romans,
🔴 we survived the inquisition in Spain,
🔴 we have the pogroms in Russia,
🔴 we survived Hitler,
🔴 we survived the Germans,
🔴 we survived the Holocaust,
🔴 we survived the armies of seven Arab countries,
🔴 we survived Saddam.
🔴 we will survive the enemies present
Think of any time in human history ⚠
Think about it, for us, the Jewish people,
🔷 the situation has never been better!
🔷 then let's face the world,
Let us remember:
🔶 all nations, empires or cultures
🔶 who once tried to destroy us,
🔶 no longer exist today - while we still live!
🔶 Egypt?
🔶 Babylon?
🔶 the Greeks?
🔶 Alexander of Macedonia?
🔶 The Romans? (does anyone still speak Latin these days? )
🔶 The Third Reich?
And look at us
🔵 The slaves of Egypt,
🔵 The People of Moses
🔵 The Nation of the Bible,
🔵 We are still here,
And Hebrew is still the official language of the State of Israel today:
🚩 from the time of the Bible and now!
🚩 Arabs don't know yet,
🚩 but they will learn that there is a God.
🚩 as long as we keep our identity, we are forever.
Some claim our morale is low.
🔵 so what?
Only because we mourn our deaths while our enemies rejoice in the blood shed & war.
🔵 that is why we will win, in the end.
The God of Israel created the Heaven's and the Earth.
The Guardian of Israel never slumbers or sleep! The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
@@kiagarci8177 The persistence of a people is not proof that the god that they believe in is real. You’ve commented this on a video of two academics who have spent much of their careers trying to teach how to assess evidence and understand what is most likely to be true. Might I suggest that you partake in some of those lessons.
@43:30 when they were talking about the mystery of why exactly, we humans are conscious, it occurred to me that consciousness serves a very useful function. It acts like a, self upgrading program.
It works to improve survival and eliminate harm. It is adaptive and flexible. Surely from an evolutionary point of view, this would reduce the need for hardwired, inbuilt programming of the sort that many organisms have.
The benefits would ensure that it was selected for, repeatedly though out, our evolutionary journey.
Just an idea I had, whilst listening to these 2 extremely interesting men. Probably, I’m not the first person to think of it, in that way.
Interesting thought. In what way does consciousness act like a self upgrading program? Could you give an example?
@@matt-stam
If you take finding food as the goal. If you did something a did risky ie soaked in water for a few days something that is normally toxic, then ate it. If it worked, we remember that.
We alter our reprogram to include “soak away toxins before eating”. Also would work with “cook before eating”.
@@budd2nd Aren't we mixing learning and consciousness together?
It seems like this adaption could be made just from the normal learning process of making new neurons and neural connections, without the consciousness mechanism being needed.
I'm not a neuroscientist so I am not 100% sure that's how learning works, but I think it may be.
@@matt-stam
Yeah you might be right. I am not really awake right now. My reply to you was written about 6 am after a dreadful night sleep.
I’ll have to think about it again, once my brain starts functioning properly.
@@matt-stam
Hi Matt, I haven’t deleted my original post, but it is a jumbled mess isn’t it.
I think I was trying to convey a state of mental awareness of one’s actions and the different outcomes those actions could have. And trying to say that our ability to think through past actions and design different courses of actions to improve the outcome, and that is what improves our survival.
The ability to recognise when past actions didn’t work, and build a different course of actions, with a hopefully better outcome, is the upgrading I was suggesting.
Having “hardwired” behaviours works for many animals, in their environments, but being able to be more flexible mentally, is what has helped humans.
Consciousness is a big part of that flexibility of mind. Consciousness allows us to review, plan and adjust behaviours to suit many new and varied situations.
So for example “last time I ate that tuber, it made me ill. If I treat it before eating it, maybe I won’t be ill this time”. So I’m planning and adjusting, because I’m consciously aware of my actions and the results.
Idea's and rational thinking. I'm very much in favor of open discourse.
Thank you gentlemen.
So love Richard
Just think, this meeting and every word spoken was inevitable.
Do you BELIEVE in determinism?
@@mrloop1530
It seems that you BELIEVE in freedom of volition? ☝️
If you mean to say God has preset all words, everything we do are preset, we are hopeless creatures our thoughts are also preset, we are bound to do what is set to us ,or some imaginery nonsense, who will think that typical nonsense
@@TheWorldTeacher Yes, although a much more complex emergent property in living systems than say for asteroids flying through space.
@@souravbasu6285, kindly repeat that in ENGLISH, Miss.☝️
This is great. Btw Richard, if you always buy the same colour and make of socks, you don't have to throw one away when you lose the other. More handy household hints to follow.
This is going to be good, I can feel it! Not painful to watch like the ones with SH and JP.
Yeah, it's going to be good for your tiny brain. This all just came about on its own. No God needed. Wow, how good that is.
The 1LofT states that energy can't be created or destroyed, it can't happen naturally. One aspect of the 2LofT shows that the universe is winding down, usable energy is becoming less usable. It is clear creation had to be done supernaturally at some point yet it is still denied because people are just too proud to accept that, among other things.
We need more people like Richard in the world.
Dawkins is immoral. His public support for Israel even as it mass-murders children is beyond belief.
Fantastic 👍.
Amazing as always. ⚛️ 🙂
I have already donated...
It makes me cry that Dawkin is ageing .His role in unmasking the so called creator is a boon to humanity. even after 100 of years ,hope people will listen to Dawkin videos and get enlightened.
Aging is better than the alternative isn't it?
Hi. How can Dawkins be a benefit to the human race. If there is no God, there is no 'beneficial.' According to Dawkins himself, there is only 'pitiless indifference.' Such is the world of atheism. Yet, Jesus Christ is the light of the world.
I pray to god we can have more of these
I pray to Jo Pesci for the same.
Amen
@@guydegroof9415 ha, nearly didn’t clock that reference. To be fair jo pesci gets it done
1:29:59 - if only Sam could have seen how prophetic this statement would be back in 2016 !
“Richard seems to want to live in a maximally dangerous world... filled with mosquitoes and t-rexes”
So only t - rexes outstanding
No, that's fantasy. What he wants, and what he is largely getting is a dying culture and people. As people loose religion, they lose EVERYTHING, especially family and total fertility. We have lost faith in our culture. We do not believe in ourselves anymore. We run around the world apologizing for everything we have ever done and we have opened the doors to people who are not atheists and are not weak and have very high total fertility.
Sam is another story. He is a deceiver. He is a chameleon among us. He is of the Middle East. He should not be ANYWHERE in the Occident.
@Scott Scotty Is loosing fertility to sub-replacement not everything? Is running around the world apologizing for who we are and denouncing our fathers and tearing down monuments of our founding fathers not everything?
No, I don't h8te them. They are not us and they do not belong in our lands, just as we do not belong in theirs.
We lost 70 THOUSAND people to opiates last year. A frggin city lost to hopelessness.
@Scott Scotty So ignore everything, pretend I said nothing and then run away?
70 thousand people either died or they didn't. It's not my opinion that they died. It's on the CDC website.
Total fertility has either collapsed or it hasn't. Again, consult the CDC.
@Scott Scotty Run away! Run Away!
Coward.
I love Richard Dawkins
How does saying "I love" someone make a person gay??? You not have been told that often.
@A Serious Salamander seemed like you do.
what a way to finish the night. "this show went off without a hitch." yes it did truly sadly.
Besides being the religion of the region where you were born, I bet the answer to" how many religions did they review before selecting the one they have?' would be none
I miss the days of hearing brilliant men having a thought provoking conversation about life. It's sad to me that this is a rare thing to witness these days. I hope more gentlemen take notice and follow suit for humanity's sake, rather than the utter nonsense we normally witness on social media. 💯
I didn't understand the title of the Sci-Fi story by Daniel F. Galouye that Richard quotes. Can anyone help me please? Thanks
Consciousness is an emergent property of the hierarchically organized complexity of the brain and its input system. It does not have a specific location, therefore, but is a property of that entire complex system, from which it emerges. Every level of hierarchically organized systems has its unique new emergent properties.
Yes, it's a very good description.
The question is how precise your definition is based on which you are saying it does not have a specific location
@@souravbasu6285 Yes,: I should have said it is not localized to a point, and distributed neural activity over time, within a network of activity.
How do you measure consciousness?
@@juleendickson1079 Awareness of an individual: what thoughts come into focus at that moment -- i.e., focus of working memory, as the result of the brain's ongoing activity. It's amazing to me, how little control I often have over what that is. My own train of thought is especially erratic, when I am about to fall asleep, and lose consciousness. I sometimes try to analyze what that fading train of thought was. I think this has the potential to shed light on the underlying brain activity that moves stuff into working memory/consciousness.
I’d run into a burning 🔥 building to save the Book 📖 “The selfish Gene” 🧬 😍
@@things_leftunsaid I’m a bit of a old school guy I prefer a paper style book collection etc. 👍🏻
@@things_leftunsaid That’s cool. 👍🏻
:D
@@buddha1736 As far as I’ve heard, paper-based books are still far more popular than digital
@@pervasivedoubt150 A home without a Book shelf full of Books 📚 is a home without a Soul. 😉👍🏻
As a Christian I realy admire theese two guys. Dawkins is nightmare for every beliver but nothing shold escape from critics neihter religion. Our job as a Christians is to defend our fate with straight arguments, love and understending of opposite side. I apericiate honest sceptic more than blind beliver. My fate is based on evidence of reciving Holy Spirit and I know its true. Bible has a lots of scientific facts also, people could not invent that.
“I think I want to stop being ashamed of being elitist”
Minimum empathy for our forefathers: when tools and skills were yet to be acquired, craft a story pragmatically. Above that, keep evolving and keep re-crafting the storyline until reasons convincing enough are accepted with little or no coercion. First, discrete mathematical logic for the explanation of evidence and stories can only be put aside for those who can be influenced by nudging efforts. The more coercion the more people search for more reasons. Then scientists are born.
Deist here. Could always appreciate Dawkins’ intelligence, poetic vernacular, and manners. It is surprising to hear he has softened his views on secularism. You get the same from militant atheism as you do from militant religious ideology - limits. Science is seeking answers and often postulating for the unquantifiable, as is rational truth-seeking ID Theory. Science and the positing of something outside of our understanding are often two in the same. So if we discredit one, we’re essentially discrediting the other - we mustn’t do that.
I hope the likes of Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris, (unfortunately Christopher Hitchen has passed on), will continue such conversations to open minds. Becoz believe or not, it is such that turn minds away from nonsense superstitions !
Wow, you sure are a shallow thinker. You and these two clueless beings DO believe in superstitions. You believe we got all this on its own.
The 1LofT states that energy can't be created or destroyed, it can't happen naturally. One aspect of the 2LofT shows that the universe is winding down, usable energy is becoming less usable. It is clear creation had to be done supernaturally at some point yet it is still denied because people are just too proud to accept that, among other things.
You guys are our knights / cavaliers
"Christian scientists... scientists who happen to be christians"
Reminded me of a Hitchens speech at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas
Science as we know it was invented by Christians who were raised in Christian societies.
@@tarstarkusz Science predates Christianity. It also goes against religion/faith, since it requires evidence (and not blind faith).
@@Kth4life No it doesn't. Some of the most important people who ever lived in terms of science came out of Christendom. Erase Christendom from history and we're living, at best, similar to the Romans, if we are living at all.
@@tarstarkusz “came out of Christianity”? Christianity didn’t lead to their scientific discovery. Science did. And science predates Christianity.
Christianity has fought against scientific discovery all throughout history.
@@tarstarkusz “The earliest roots of science can be traced to Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3500 to 3000 BCE.”
BCE, ergo before Christianity
Great video, but what happened to the captions? Words are often replaced with synonyms, just added needlessly or even make the opposite point of what's actually being discussed. Who wrote this? Why is it so bad, but only some of the time?
may just be or is in my view the most valuable video to exist on youtube
I'm a proud atheist and I just can't wrap my head around the fact that so many people today consciously choose to believe the silly stories that have been "written during the bronze age by a bunch of goat herders" (as Richard Dawkins put it so eloquently).