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#102 - Is Buddhism True?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Consciousness in the Universe

Everything we are conscious of seems pushed to the fore by processes that we're not conscious of. It's an epiphenomenal view because it is implicit in behavior modern behavioral science, he says. consciousness would seem to be evolutionarily superfluous according to a very mainstream scientific way of thinking about behavioral science and i continue to think it's amazing that the thing that gives life meaning is the thing that there's no obvious reason for at least from a one very mainstream uh you know kind of scientific standpoint.

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