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#185 – Sam Harris: Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Subjective Side of Psychedelics

We have every reason to believe that many of our thoughts, all of our thoughts are at bottom what some part of our brain is doing neurophysiologically. Is it possible to somehow get closer to the roots of where they come out of from the firing of the cells? Or is it a useless pursuit to dig into that direction? Well, you can get closer to many, many subtle contents in consciousness, right? So you can notice things more and more clearly and have a landscape of mind open up and become more differentiated and more interesting. But this idea of you getting closer to something, to the the datum of your mind or such as something of interest in there or something that's

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