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Making Sense of Meditation

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

CHAPTER

The Neuroscience of Craving

The Buddha discovered what we now think of in modern day as reward based learning before paper had even been invented. Eric Candel won the Nobel Prize for showing that this process is evolutionarily conserved all the way back to the sea slug. What does your work tell you about what the brain is doing when we're feeling desire for a stimulus and that desire is made actionable because there's no distance between, you know, attention and the desire itself? Yes. So why don't we start at the the pleasant and unpleasant aspect in Buddhist terms, vedna pleasant unpleasant or sometimes neutral?"

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