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#322 - Predicting Reality

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Prediction

All of our bodily feelings are constructed around predictions, including pain. And for that reason, if you get very strong information suggesting that something very painful is happening to your body, then even if nothing is actually happening toyour body, you feel intense pain. There's a lot of interest in new therapies that are trying to target the predictions rather than anything else.

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