Where Shall We Meet

On Meditation, Morality & Free Will with Sam Harris

Apr 30, 2025
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INSIGHT

Default Mode Network and Self Illusion

  • The brain's default mode network is active during mind wandering and self-referential thought.
  • Meditation aims to dissolve the illusion of a separate self at the center of experience.
ADVICE

Embrace Emotions Fully

  • Feel your emotions completely without resisting or labeling them.
  • Mindfulness helps dissolve negative emotions by observing their changing energy in the body.
INSIGHT

Rationality and Emotion Interplay

  • Humans are rational but also guided by emotion, which are intertwined.
  • Rationality guards love and social states; certainty and doubt are emotional experiences.
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