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Making Sense with Sam Harris

Making Sense with Sam Harris

By: Sam Harris
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Join neuroscientist, philosopher, and five-time New York Times best-selling author Sam Harris as he explores important and controversial questions about the mind, society, current events, moral philosophy, religion, and rationality—with an overarching focus on how a growing understanding of ourselves and the world is changing our sense of how we should live. Sam is also the creator of the Waking Up app. Combining Sam's decades of mindfulness practice, profound wisdom from varied philosophical and contemplative traditions, and a commitment to a secular, scientific worldview, Waking Up is a resource for anyone interested in living a more examined, fulfilling life—and a new operating system for the mind. Waking Up offers free subscriptions to anyone who can't afford one, and donates a minimum of 10% of profits to the most effective charities around the world. To learn more, please go to WakingUp.com. Sam Harris received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.All rights reserved Science Social Sciences
Episodes
  • #477 — More From Sam: Iran's Unraveling, The Gaza Information War, AI-Generated Music, and More

    #477 — More From Sam: Iran's Unraveling, The Gaza Information War, AI-Generated Music, and More
    May 26 2026

    Warning: This episode contains graphic descriptions of violence against civilians during the October 7 attacks (33:49 - 34:35). Listener discretion is advised.

    In this latest episode of the More From Sam series, Sam and Jaron talk about current events. They discuss the Trump administration's bungled Iran campaign, the information war surrounding Gaza and October 7, Nicholas Kristof's disputed New York Times report on Israeli prisoner abuse, Sam's controversial take on AI-generated music, Claude solving a decades-old math problem, the ethics of concealing GLP-1 use, and other topics.
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    22 mins
  • #476 — The Bittersweet Age

    #476 — The Bittersweet Age
    May 20 2026

    Sam Harris speaks with Susan Cain about writing, creativity, and what AI means for human culture. They discuss the future of books and reading, the tells AI inherits from good writers, why the advent of AI may spark a revival of the humanities, following your bliss, the ethics of curing sadness, the therapeutic potential of psychedelics, and other topics.

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    23 mins
  • #475 — The Hard Problem of Consciousness

    #475 — The Hard Problem of Consciousness
    May 12 2026

    Sam Harris speaks with Michael Pollan about consciousness, the mind, and the self. They discuss Pollan's new book, the relationship between consciousness and intelligence, whether consciousness is a product of evolution, the role of psychedelics in consciousness research, AI and the question of machine consciousness, the illusion of the self, and other topics.

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    26 mins
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It defeats the propose of my Audible subscription where the Podcasts are meant to be free. Perhaps this should be removed from this platform OR Audible should reformulate and state that only half of these episodes are included for members.

The talks itself are (...)
- half of the sentence is omitted because you didn't pay me -

Why is this not free for Audible members?

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Apparently Audible only gives you fifteen words to review - so here goes, Sam is the

only 15 words auditable?

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No point starting this unless you want to subscribe to another service.
Have to make 15 words to leave a review.

Pointless being on audible.

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