NSP034 – Consciousness Without Matter

Can you live as a brain in a jar?

Doug Wilson, author of “Kundalini Running“, joins me on the podcast to celebrate the final upload of his audiobook and to talk about the physical mechanisms of consciousness and whether or not one can exist without the other.

Like all my conversations with Doug, it’s a bit of a mind-bending discussion where no idea is off the table.

Enjoy!

Episode Links:

Making Sense #168 “Mind Space and Motion”:
https://samharris.org/podcasts/168-mind-space-motion/

What hallucination reveals about our minds | Oliver Sacks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgOTaXhbqPQ

Elon Musk’s Neralink Presentation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA77zsJ31nA

“The Man With Two Brains” Clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT0CScFzp1o

Get Doug’s awesome book Kundalini Running:
https://kundalinirunning.com/

NSP005 – Stories We Hold Onto

Sometimes we protect our stories against all reason and evidence.

But do we really need the stories that originally inspired positive ideas to be validated? Does having facts debunked make the beliefs that arose from them any less useful?

And what if you can’t let go of a story that’s untrue?

The Book of Life (clip): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztwympi4u64
Emoto Refuted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFDjHZKruPU
Rice Experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvShgttIq7I
Rice Experiment Busted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEvfD3O-ack
Cancer Healing in China: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HecA7XRO7eQ
Killing Cancer with Sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKh2XFmsUx4