Lesson
Sam Harris
Understand how consciousness is the one thing in the world that cannot be an illusion.
Preview
Qa
Can you talk about the relationship between attention and consciousness?
Clip
Steven Laureys, Sam Harris
Why is it like anything to be you?
You aren’t having experience—you are experience.
Conversation
Shamil Chandaria, Sam Harris
Sam and Shamil discuss perception, psychedelics, emptiness, Effective Altruism, and more.
Loch Kelly, Sam Harris
What is there to find when paying close attention to consciousness and its contents?
Listen to Sam clarify his ideas about consciousness and first-person experience.
Jay Garfield, Sam Harris
What we see, visualize, introspect, and call the self are all mental artifacts.
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