#179 — The Unquiet Mind

Sam Harris speaks with Judson Brewer about addiction, craving,
and mindfulness. They discuss the nature of reward-based
learning, the role of subjective bias in addiction, the
neuroscience of craving, the neural correlates of the sense of
self, real-time neuroimaging, effort and effortlessness in
meditation, smoking cessation through mindfulness, the difference
between dopamine-driven reward and happiness, how to make
meditation a habit, working with anxiety, and other topics.


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