#322 — Predicting Reality

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

🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Sam Harris speaks with Andy Clark about the predictive brain, embodied cognition, and the extended mind. They discuss the structure of perception, novelty, precision, pain, psychedelics, emotion, ways to hack our predictions, hypnosis, meditation, artificial intelligence, consciousness, and other topics.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast.
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0:46.6	Well, Trump has finally been indicted for willfully mishandling classified documents.
0:53.7	The details are fairly amazing.
0:56.8	Once again, we see the evidence that the man has never been playing for D. Chess.
1:02.4	He just so recklessly and pointlessly violates norms and compromises the integrity of everyone
1:08.5	around him.
1:09.5	And he's been so immunized from political consequences by having bent the Republican
1:14.8	party into a personality cult.
1:18.1	That it's no longer surprising that he expects every bad situation to turn to his advantage.
1:24.2	And perhaps this one will, too.
1:26.2	We'll just have to wait and see.
1:28.2	I would definitely be happier if you were being prosecuted for something related to January
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