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Absolutely Mental Season Two

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Is There a State of Hypnosis?

hypnosis is advertised as being a state that gets induced. It's on the basis of that state that you then become suggestible. But at a certain point, what you are imagining is pure sensation is being modulated by the rest of what the brain is doing. Andand it becomes susceptible to significant influence and even cancellation. That's happening, i'm not sure. Maybe someone has a good sense of it now, but i'm just not aware of it. This relates to the placibo effect, which is also well demonstrated for for pain and for many other things, but it's also not understood. The belief based process that gets started,. yes, is erically efficacious,

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