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Ep. 13 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Buddhism and Parasitic Processing

Dr. John Vervaeke

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The Confirmation Bias and Anxiety

We judge airplane crashes to be highly probable even though they're very low in probability. We misjudge probabilities because of these heuristics. These things that make you so adaptive simultaneously make you vulnerable to self-deceptive, self-destructive behavior. That's what it means to say all of your life is threatened by Dukkha.

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