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

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What's the Difference Between Reality and Psychedelics?

There's quite a lot of discussion about what it's like to do math on LSD. It makes me wonder where the spaces, how is the space of things you're able to think about and explore morphed by different psychedelics or dream states? How much does it overlap with reality? And what is fundamental? What is reality? Is there a waking state reality? Or is it just a tiny subset of reality and we get to take a step in other versions of it? We tend to think very much in a space-time, four-dimensional, there's a three-dimensional world, there's time, and that's what we think about reality.

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