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#226 - The Price of Distraction

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Limits of Cognition

We were evolutionarily sort of well suited to do this. This is how we survive. We avoid threats and seek out nutrients and mates. And this is how the brain evolved to allow us to fluidly, dynamically interact with the world. But there's a breaking point. And if the system is overloaded due to all sorts of types of interference that we can talk about, there will be consequences.

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