Making Sense with Sam Harris — #320 — Constructing Self and World

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#320 — Constructing Self and World

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris speaks with Shamil Chandaria about how the brain constructs a vision of the self and the world. They discuss the brain from first principles; Bayesian inference; hierarchical predictive processing; the construction of vision; psychedelics and neuroplasticity; beliefs and prior probabilities; the interaction…

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