<p>Sam Harris speaks with Judea Pearl about his work on the mathematics of causality and artificial intelligence. They discuss how science has generally failed to understand causation, different levels of causal inference, counterfactuals, the foundations of knowledge, the nature of possibility, the illusion of free will, artificial intelligence, the nature of consciousness, and other topics.</p> <p>If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at samharris.org/subscribe.</p>

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#164 — Cause & Effect

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Sam Harris Episodes Around August 5, 2019

#149 — The Problem of Addiction

#150 — The Map of Misunderstanding

#151 — Will We Destroy the Future?

#152 — The Trouble with Facebook

#153 — Possible Minds

#154 — What Do Jihadists Really Want? (2019)

#155 — Mental Models

#156 — The Evolution of Culture

#157 — What Does the Mueller Report Really Say?

#158 — Understanding Humans in the Wild

#159 — Conscious

#160 — The Revenge of History

#161 — Rise & Fall

#162 — Medical Intelligence

#163 — Ricky Gervais

#164 — Cause & Effect

#165 — Journey into Wokeness

#166 — The Plague Years

#167 — A Few Thoughts on White Supremacy

#168 — Mind, Space, & Motion

#169 — Omens of a Race War

#170 — The Great Uncoupling

#171 — Escaping a Christian Cult

#172 — Among the Deplorables

#173 — Anti-Semitism and Its Discontents

#174 — Life & Mind

#175 — Leaving the Faith

#176 — Knowledge & Redemption

#177 — Psychedelic Science

#178 — The Reality Illusion

#179 — The Unquiet Mind

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