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Sam Harris

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The heart believes what it will, but the brain behaves the same either way | LA Times
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Religious believers may seem to share little with nonbelievers when it comes to thinking and judgment. But a new study by UCLA researchers finds that both Christians and nonbelievers use the same parts of the brain when asked to label articles of religious faith as true or false.
October 5 at 10:38pm
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Mary Shrout Powell
Mary Shrout Powell
Mike...can't blame those involved in the study for a stupid headline.
October 6 at 5:11am
Sam Harris

Sam Harris

The Brain Processes Facts and Beliefs the Same Way | Newsweek BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller
Source: www.newsweek.com
Our believing brains make no qualitative distinctions between the kinds of things you learn in a math textbook and the kinds of things you learn in Sunday school, according to a new study by Sam Harris and others.
October 5 at 10:32pm
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Michael Corliss
Michael Corliss
"While the brains of believers and nonbelievers do not differentiate between beliefs about God and about mathematics, the believers themselves do, a little."
This statement smacks of dualism! Do I have a self independent of my brain? If not, where in the brain is the difference Ms. Miller is referring to?
October 6 at 8:37am
Sam Harris

Sam Harris

The Edge Annual Question — 2009
"What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?" Sam Harris answers: http://www.edge.org/q2009/q09_12.html#harrissam
January 6 at 9:45am
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Nathan Campanella
Nathan Campanella
A human on mars.
September 24 at 4:16pm
Sean Utt
Sean Utt
I think a true crap detector would be more useful...
October 4 at 5:15pm
Sam Harris

Sam Harris

Sam Harris on Sarah Palin and Elitism
The problem, as far as our political process is concerned, is that half the electorate revels in Palin's lack of intellectual qualifications. When it comes to politics, there is a mad love of mediocrity in this country...
Sam Harris

Sam Harris

Sam Harris: Sexist Pig and Liberal Shill
I’ve received more than the usual amount of criticism for my recent opinion piece on Sarah Palin, most of it alleging sexism and/or an unseemly infatuation with Barack Obama. For those who care, I’d like to briefly respond ... ...
September 23, 2008 at 9:32am
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Roberto
Roberto
google video: the Obama Deception
looking at the people behind him pulling his strings...if someone as intelligent as Sam Harris cannot see it just adds credence to my assertion that Obama is more dangerous than GW Bush ...simply because he has duped most US intellectuals and academics ....something Bush could never do...God Bless people like ... Read MoreCharlie Sheen and other public figures like him (unfortunately not enough) who have the balls and forum to question Obama on such key issues as 9/11 and the sham "official story"...
October 6 at 2:46am
Haroon Jafarey Hall
Haroon Jafarey Hall
your looking for the zeitgeist group
November 1 at 1:11am
Sam Harris

Sam Harris

Palin: Average Isn't Good Enough
She's not qualified to be president, and in picking her, McCain shows that he has little respect for the presidency. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-harris3-2008sep03,0,3801278.story
September 23, 2008 at 9:32am
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Mark Nowrasteh
Mark Nowrasteh
Sorry, that kind of turned into a rant... I just think it's a bit silly to allow ourselves to taken in by one manipulative public official, and forgo whatever inclination we might have had to criticize him, while we so revel in launching invective at another.

Palin was silly though, especially with the whole 'we need to respect Intelligent Design' in schools bit.
April 15 at 8:50pm
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