Ask Me Anything #3

Sam shares his thoughts on Eiynah Nice Mango's "Open Letter to Sam Harris" alleging that Douglas Murray is a bigot.How should we differentiate labels used for clarity and labels used in a way that encourages tribalism?What about the idea of "free won't" as opposed to "free will"?Why are you planning to vote for Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders?Sam shares his thoughts on Noam Chomsky's interview with Medhi Hasan on Al Jazeera.What was the most unexpected and or remarkable audience reaction during your recent tour of Australia?Which misrepresentation of your views are you most tired of defending?What does agency mean in the context of free will? Is the difference between involuntary and voluntary action only an indication of future behavior?Can you talk about the distinction between an intellectual understanding of the self as illusion and an experience of no self?What do you think about the recent deplatforming of Richard Dawkins by the Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism?What is your economic perspective? You have seldom commented on this topic other than saying that you wished taxes to be raised on the rich. What in your view are the moral highs and lows are free market and socialist economies?Does your dismissal of the matters of corporatism and imperialism come from believing that they are insignificant factors in the conflict we are having with Islam–extreme Islam–or is it a tactical reaction to the lack of voice given to critiquing extreme Islam and its destructive effects?Do you think there are people in the world who cannot learn to meditate just as there are tone deaf people who cannot learn a musical instrument and still others will never learn to sing? Did you ever discuss meditation with Christopher Hitchens?

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Join neuroscientist, philosopher, and best-selling author Sam Harris as he explores important and controversial questions about the human mind, society, and current events. Sam Harris is the author of five New York Times bestsellers. His books include The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape, Free Will, Lying, Waking Up, and Islam and the Future of Tolerance (with Maajid Nawaz). The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. His writing and public lectures cover a wide range of topics—neuroscience, moral philosophy, religion, meditation practice, human violence, rationality—but generally focus on how a growing understanding of ourselves and the world is changing our sense of how we should live. Harris's work has been published in more than 20 languages and has been discussed in The New York Times, Time, Scientific American, Nature, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and many other journals. He has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Economist, The Times (London), The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The Annals of Neurology, and elsewhere. Sam Harris received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.