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/
Do you believe in synchronicity?
Today I have a discussion with Alex Snarski, an old friend whom I hadn’t seen for 13 years but happened to bump into while shopping for audio cables at the HiFi store where he works.
We started talking and found we had both developed interests in consciousness, meditation and Ayahuasca over the 13 years we had been apart.
The rub? It was Alex’s last day at the store. If I had gone a day later, we would never have crossed paths.
Here’s Alex’s story of heartbreak, awakening and synchronicity.
Intro Clip:
Repo Man – Flying Saucers & Time Machines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRJ5cCP0ZPE
Show notes and links:
Seven Types of Synchronicities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-FhR7cGgYo
Joe Rogan talks Ayahuasca and DMT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_fuE9La6Xg
The real reason why DMT is banned – Graham Hancock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47ElVv3RG2M
Graham Hancock’s banned TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_hShqKn5cg
Rupert Sheldrake talks Morphic Resonance on Under The Skin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAS-QzWvj8g
Elon Musk looks like he’s never toked on a doobie before, and yet he’s telling us, completely sober, that we’re probably living within multiple nested computer simulations, like Russian nesting dolls.
What is he banging on about? Is there any evidence for this? And why does this idea keep surfacing in popular media?
Let’s see if we can sort it out…
Popcorn Lobotomy Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdHQBomyVGo
JP / Wandering Soul Records: https://wanderingsoulmusic.bandcamp.com
JP’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joel.pearse
Riddle / Simulation theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CyN8rYdX6g
Another explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRmZ_sNf2mE
Elon Musk with Joe Rogan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cM690CKArQ
Russel Brand considers Simulation Theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkYsMinnh5s
Dr Sylvester James finds computer code in reality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc4GOkHfxBY
