Sam Harris - The moment we realize that the on...

The moment we realize that the only things we can intelligibly value are actual and potential changes in the experience of conscious beings, we can think about a landscape of such changes - where the peaks correspond to the greatest possible well-being and the valleys correspond to the lowest depths of suffering.

Sam Harris

American Author

Born: Apr 9, 1967

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