#153 — Possible Minds

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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🗓️ 15 April 2019

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Sam Harris introduces John Brockman's new anthology, "Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AI," in conversation with three of its authors: George Dyson, Alison Gopnik, and Stuart Russell.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast. This is Sam Harris. Just a note to say that if you're
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0:46.8	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast. This is Sam Harris. Okay, a few things to announce here.
0:52.9	I have an event in Los Angeles on July 11th. If you're a supporter of the podcast, you should have
1:00.7	already received an email. This is actually the first event for the app. It's the first waking
1:07.6	up event. It is at the will turn on July 11th, and it is with a great Tibetan Lama by the name of
1:16.7	Mingur Rinpoche. Mingur is a fascinating guy. He's the youngest son of the greatest zoggen master I
1:25.2	ever studied with. Tukur again Rinpoche. I wrote about him and my book waking up,
1:32.0	so that name might be familiar to some of you. I studied with him in Nepal about 30 years ago.
1:37.6	I've never met Mingur, and he's about, I don't know, seven years younger than me. I was in my 20s
1:46.9	when I was in Nepal, and he was a teenager, and he was on retreat for much of that time. He did
1:54.8	his first three retreat when he was, I think, 13. He was always described as the superstar of the
2:02.1	family. I studied with two of his brothers, Chokinima Rinpoche and Sokin Rinpoche, but I've never
2:08.5	met Mingur, and I really looking forward to it. He has a very interesting story, because at some point
2:15.9	he started teaching and started running monasteries. I believe he has three monasteries he's running,
2:22.5	as well as a foundation. But then in 2011, when he was 36, he just disappeared from his monastery
2:31.8	in India, and spent the next four and a half years wandering around India as a mendicant yogi,
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