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Autor, filósofo y neurocientífico estadounidense (nacido en 1967)
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Join the roomSamuel Benjamin Harris es un neurocientífico, filósofo, autor y presentador de pódcast estadounidense. Su obra abarca una variedad de temas, como la racionalidad, la religión, la ética, el libre albedrío, el determinismo, la neurociencia, la meditación, los psicodélicos, la filosofía de la mente, la política, el terrorismo y la inteligencia artificial. Harris alcanzó notoriedad por su crítica a la religión, y es conocido como uno de los «Cuatro Jinetes» del Nuevo Ateísmo, junto con Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens y Daniel Dennett.
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“It is time we admitted that we are not at war with "terrorism". We are at war with Islam. This is not to say that we are at war with all Muslims, but we are absolutely at war with the vision of life that is prescribed to all Muslims in the Koran. The only reason Muslim fundamentalism is a threat to us is because the fundamentals of Islam are a threat to us.”
“If religion were the only durable foundation for morality you would suspect atheists to be really badly behaved. You would go to a group like the National Academy of Sciences. These are the most elite scientists, 93 percent of whom reject the idea of God. You would expect these guys to be raping and killing and stealing with abandon.”
“You are happily being misunderstood in your use of the word "God".”
“Perhaps the most important thing one can discover through the practice of meditation is that the "self"—the conventional sense of being a subject, a thinker, an experiencer living inside one's head—is an illusion.”
“To say that I would have done otherwise had I wanted to is simply to say that I would have lived in a different universe had I been in a different universe.”
“[About the reactions to the attack on Israel in October 2023:] The moral, not just untenability, the abomination we're witnessing where you have the same people who are equally exercised over Halloween costumes that are cultural appropriation and their defending what happened in Israel last week. That dissonance, I think, is something we need to not lose sight of culture-wide.”
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