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The Russell Brand Interview

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Consciousness Is Not an Illusion

Consciousness is the only thing in the universe that can't be an illusion. Ate consciousness is just simply the fact that anything seems to be happening at all. If you could experience consciousness as a flow of sensory and emotional and inter receptive experience, without the sense that there's an unchanging centre riding around on that floe ri like a man in a boat on the stream of consciousness? That would be an experience that is much more coincidentologically with thwhat we understand from the third person brain. And so what one analogy would be, the central claim of buddhism is not just buddhism, but buddhism. Many ideas are of using a vern

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