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Watch my full conversation with Gleb Solomin here:
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Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://a.co/d/03ezQFu
Focus Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://a.co/d/hi50U9U
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![Sam Harris: The Self Disappears When You Look For It.
Sam Harris on why meditation tells you nothing about the Big Bang β but everything about why youre suffering.
In this segment, the neuroscientist and creator of the Waking Up app draws the cleanest line Ive heard between the contemplative traditions first-person discoveries and the metaphysical inflation that usually rides on top of them. He breaks publicly with Deepak Chopra on exactly where that line sits.
What we cover:
- Why levels of consciousness is the wrong frame, and what changes when you switch to contents
- The optic-blind-spot analogy for finding the self β a falsifiable experiment you can run on yourself
- The difference between changing what you think about and changing the witness that thinks
- Why nearly every state of psychological suffering is anchored to a sense of self that disappears under inspection
- Where Harris parts company with Chopra on what meditative experience can and cannot tell you about the cosmos
- The claim that wisdom is nothing more profound than the ability to take your own advice
The argument matters because its empirically tractable. Either the felt sense of I survives close phenomenological inspection or it doesnt. Run the experiment.
Sam Harris is a neuroscientist, philosopher, five-time New York Times bestselling author, and creator of the Waking Up app: https://www.wakingup.com, Its my operating system for the mind that I use every day [unsponsored!]
He hosts the Making Sense podcast: https://www.samharris.org
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Timestamps:
00:00 Why You Canβt Find Your Brain
01:03 The Mystery of Consciousness
03:08 Wisdom Is Taking Your Own Advice
05:18 Meditation Isnβt Self-Improvement
07:06 Where Sam Harris Breaks From Deepak Chopra
09:10 You Are the Universe Seeing Itself
12:31 The Meditation Experiment That Changes Everything
15:00 What Happens When the Self Disappears
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