Sam Harris Returns

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2020

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Sam Harris is an American author, neuroscientist, philosopher, and podcast host. In Sam's return to Armchair Expert, he discusses what it means to live an examined life. He touches on the concepts of being deliberate with one's attention, consciousness as experience and the value of meditation. Dax believes Sam holds paradoxical interests and Sam admits he is increasingly leaning away from controversy. The two start the episode with an interesting thought experiment and they discuss the complexity of gurus. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome welcome to armchair expert. I'm your host
0:03.5	Dax Harris. I'm joined by Monica Sam.
0:06.3	That's me. Today we have returning one of our few returning guests. Yeah. Small, small pool.
0:13.0	Sam Harris, he's a neuroscientist, a philosopher, and a best-selling author.
0:18.0	He's also got a very popular podcast that we like called Making Sense Podcast. And he has a new app called Waking Up App, which is all about
0:26.8	meditation. And on this episode was Sam, Samuel, if I could. Samuel Harrison.
0:32.6	We talk way more about, you know, just overall mental health,
0:36.8	mindfulness.
0:38.2	Yeah, it's a really fun exploration because he's
0:40.8	well versed on several topics, one in particular he's super into meditation
0:44.2	and is dedicated his life to it so it was a really fun conversation and a much different speed than our last
0:49.2	and hopefully we'll have many other speeds in the future so please enjoy Sam Harris.
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1:06.6	wherever you get your podcasts.
1:10.0	He's an I. Sam Harris.
1:17.6	He's an I'm sure it's bad. Sam Harris.
1:24.0	Brown too.
1:26.0	Round too.
1:27.0	You know, I imagine you, well I hope that you run into this problem you might not because
1:32.0	if you're superior intelligence.
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