#322 — Predicting Reality

Sam Harris speaks with Andy Clark about the predictive brain,
embodied cognition, and the extended mind. They discuss the
structure of perception, novelty, precision, pain, psychedelics,
emotion, ways to hack our predictions, hypnosis, meditation,
artificial intelligence, consciousness, and other topics.


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