#227 — Knowing the Mind

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

Samharris, Currentevents, Politics, Ethics, Religion, Neuroscience, Science, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 • 29.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the podcast, Stephen Laureys interviews Sam Harris about meditation practice and the scientific study of the mind. They discuss why Sam began to practice meditation, the difference between dualistic and nondualistic mindfulness, the search for happiness, wisdom vs knowledge, our relationship with death, the Buddhist doctrine of rebirth, the hard problem of consciousness, the role of introspection in science, meditation and free will, the self and the brain, the difference between voluntary and involuntary actions, dangerous knowledge, the mystery of being, the power of hypnosis, and other topics.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense podcast.
0:08.0	This is Sam Harris.
0:10.8	Just a note to say that if you're hearing this, you are not currently on our subscriber
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0:30.6	And as always, I never want money to be the reason why someone can't listen to the podcast.
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0:47.2	Okay, no housekeeping today.
0:50.4	Today I'm presenting a conversation I had with Stephen Laura's, who is a Belgian neuroscientist
0:57.2	and neurologist.
0:59.6	He has a clinical practice as well.
1:02.2	And he's engaged in a lot of fascinating research, which we don't actually talk about.
1:07.2	That will be left for a future conversation.
1:10.0	This time around, he wanted to interview me for a book he's doing, and he wanted to talk
1:13.9	about meditation.
1:14.9	And as the conversation got into some interesting detail, I thought many of you would
1:20.4	like to hear it.
1:21.7	So this is me being interviewed about meditation, what it is, and why one would do it, how it
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