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#108 - Dr. JOEL LEHMAN - Machine Love [Staff Favourite]

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

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Is There a Connection Between Meditation and Self-Determination?

Timothy Stanley: I had a yoga teacher and we would often meditate. He was used to the thought experiment of a sadhu, which is a type of person who basically doesn't participate in society at all. It's almost like this Zen kind of objective, if you like, maybe you could call it objective. What was to only have sensory experience and not really participate in anything whatsoever. And that feels like a kind of escapism to me, which didn't actually feel like something I wanted to participate in.

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