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The Enlightenment Hack? w/Jay Sanguinetti

The Contemplative Science Podcast

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The Existential Risk of Neuroplasticity

Jay Parini: We're using very simple transducers right now. The tech is like 100 years old, basically. And so you're going to get more sophisticated tech over the next five years or so. There's a whole lot of researchers, MIT, Stanford, Harvard, awesome researchers all really interested in this. But we worry, as I said, about what if you can target a part of the brain?Parini: Many neuroscientists out there worry when we start talking about that and they should because that's the same parts of the brain that opioids are getting you addicted to.

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