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#96 - The Nature of Consciousness

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Paradox of Existence Bias

"We won't actually be suffering our own absence any more than we suffered over the fact that we weren't around a thousand years ago or a hundred years ago," he says. "The functional architecture of our brain is so rigid that it cannot be changed." He adds: "One empirical premise is that this can't be done to change the suffering to happiness, racial, and human beings in an interesting way"

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