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#179 — The Unquiet Mind

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Do You Know What the Dactivation Means?

The posterior singulat quortex seems to be more linked to an experiential sense of self, and is also directly, anatomically connected to brain regions involved in memory. We found that this activation was correlated not just with things like mind wandering or craving, but it's the degree to which people get caught up in that experience. Other experiences were also activating it, such as when people were trying to meditate harder. As one person put it, ou said, i tried to look at the they were looking at the graph as an object of meditation. And that actually induced an an active, increased activity, or increased activation of the posterior singulaat cortex. Whereas other

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