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#96 - The Nature of Consciousness

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Introspection

The self model we have as human beings is really something that brings a lot of conscious suffering into the world, and it was not optimized to make us happy. There are many nasty inventions of mother nature that have been embedded into our self model. And what is actually better is if we could have a zero-person methodology, that's one step ahead. The Asian cultures and Asian philosophy have made, but we also have to admit these countries are all in terribly bad shape.

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