The Ethics Behind CERN's Big Bang Experiment

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The claim is that if we, you know, there's, there's sub sub vocal for humans, right? Communication apparently goes on with all events. They're communicating to each other at a frequency that we can't hear. And so therefore we could do it with, with elephants by, by pumping this, this sub vocal joy and causing them to bond," he said. "All of a sudden unleashing their full humanity"

Sam Harris returns to the podcast to talk about meditation and his new Waking Up meditation app. What are the goals of mindfulness practice - stress reduction and greater focus, or something much deeper? Can it cure David's existential dread? Tamler's fear of his daughter going away to college? Can sustained practice erode the illusion of self? Is that even something we'd want to do? What if it diminishes our attachment to people we love? And what is the self anyway? Is Sam a defender of panpsychism? So many questions... Plus, the ethics of creating talking elephants by curing them of their autism through bonding and possibly mounting. (Seriously.)

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