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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is There a Border Between Self and World?

Much of our mind answers to this kind of description, it's obviously not self-generated. We're following the rules of English grammar to whatever degree we are. And virtually every other cultural norm is like that. You can consciously decide to scrutinize them and override them but I mean, just think of any social situation where you're with other people and you're behaving in ways that are culturally appropriate. Those are not norms that we're, they are outside of us in some way. They're felt very viscerally.

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