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#312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is There a Momentum?
In Buddhism, the concept is this momentum persists and is something called the barto. They say that you get to hang out there for an actual number of days. If you are a materialist who has convinced themselves that it's a permanent thing, the next bit of confusion is going to be when you realize something is persisting here. This is where you run into the near death experiences, which are a global phenomena that don't seem to be completely shaped by culture. And theoretically if you wanted to, instead of spinning the wheel again and jumping back into a body, then you could choose not to do that at all. But thus the emphasis in Buddhism on meditation and Meditation away from self
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