Quote (thenoose @ Oct 6 2010 08:41pm)
I assume your talking about the guest that was on a couple days ago, the guest was Sam Harris promoting his book "The Moral Landsacpe: How Science Can Determine Morality." You seem to have totally misunderstood what was going on. He wrote a book that deals with scientifically quantifying morality. He wasn't a physicist and this had absolutely nothing to do with e=mc^2 or even the universe really. I rather doubt you have any idea what e=mc^2 even means...
This was about people and human interactions and trying to study / describe them with science.
That sounds like a really fucking lame book. From my understanding, I don't really see how he thinks he can ever quantify it. From what I've read about his book it sounds just like a bunch of utilitarian bullshit. He's just taking a stance on morality and claiming it to be science, as though any stance on morality can ever be scientific.