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#185 – Sam Harris: Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Are We Just a Collection of Humans?

Culture is like an operating system, you think of culture as an operating system. We are just a distributed computation system on which there's some kind of operating system running. The actual thing that generates the interactions, the communications, and maybe even freewill the experiences of all those freewill. Do you ever try to reframe the world in that way where it's like ideas are just using us?

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