#227 — Knowing the Mind

Stephen Laureys interviews Sam Harris about meditation practice
and the scientific study of the mind. They discuss why Sam began
to practice meditation, the difference between dualistic and
nondualistic mindfulness, the search for happiness, wisdom vs
knowledge, our relationship with death, the Buddhist doctrine of
rebirth, the hard problem of consciousness, the role of
introspection in science, meditation and free will, the self and
the brain, the difference between voluntary and involuntary
actions, dangerous knowledge, the mystery of being, the power of
hypnosis, and other topics.


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