Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried. - Sam Harris

But it can be liberating to see how thoughts pull the levers of emotion — and how negative emotions in turn set the stage for patterns of thinking that keep them active and coloring one’s mind.

Chalmers: It’s awfully hard to define consciousness. But I’d start by saying that it’s the subjective experience of the mind and the world. It’s basically what it feels like, from the first-person point of view, to be thinking and perceiving and judging.

The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics.