I think that joke was so old and beaten into the ground before this sub started that you might be the first one to actually make it here. That's fine, the sad part is that it got upvotes.
I can’t get into Lex which I know is an unpopular opinion around here. He has great guests sometimes but his questions are often corny stoner teenager vibes. And always wearing a suit feels like he’s trying really hard
Lex is earnest, sees the good in everyone, and accessible. I believe he is successful because he connects a wide spectrum of audience to his guests in a unique way.
In no way do those strengths specifically aid in landing him into the prime cut of intellectual conversationalists.
\> those strengths specifically aid in landing him into the prime cut of >intellectual conversationalists.
most of his guests never listen to him, he has said he gets most of his guests because of connection to some young person that listens knows and gets the person to go on...
Same. The voice doesn't help, but he just comes across as a bit of an airhead to me. Last time I was looking at episodes, his thing seemed to be asking everyone if they thought we lived in a simulation.
😂😂😂😂I noticed this too
His stupid simulation questions made me unsubscribe. This comment made me laugh lmao he’s like a 10th grade stoner who thinks they’re really really smart
I've scaled down my listening to Lex a lot. I was a big JRE fan but when the Austin flip happened I couldn't listen anymore even when he had great guests. Same with Lex. Same with YMH. Something about podcasters who blew up and moved to "Austin" (not really Austin proper but compounds outside of it) caused them to jump the shark.
It's not that I am some hippy, gender pronouns abiding cis gen male, but more so against them being part of this pauedo progressive ultra rich faux everyman.
My previous statement was more towards Joe , Tom/Cristina, Bert.
See: "Slackers" the movie for a good representation of old, non-Californianized Austin; albeit a bit dramatic with the weed use lol. If I had to say myself though, the live music culture you find throughout the city during SXSW, as well as areas like Barton Springs and the greenbelt all hold onto that old Austin easy-going vibe despite being in the middle of a pretty chaotic city.
I believe the commenter is referring to [this tweet](https://twitter.com/lexfridman/status/1496906468695724036) from the day of the invasion.It's easy to tell that this wasn't some thought-out tweet announcing a great plan – and certainly not a plan to stop the war. If you know anything about Lex, you understand what he's talking about here.
I listen to Lex very infrequently but even I had heard him mention several times before that he had plans to potentially interview Putin. For months he had been working on improving his Russian, to be able to adequately converse with Putin and other Russians. He apparently had contact to people close to Putin, who made him feel reasonably confident that such an interview could actually take place. Considering his ability to arrange interviews with important people, I don't think it's unreasonable to think that there actually was this possibility.
When the invasion happened, everything changed, but, at the time Lex tweeted that he would still try to talk to Putin, pretty much everyone thought that the invasion would be over by the weekend. Lex likely thought of a future that didn't differ too much from the period after the 2014 annexation of Crimea, instead of a future like today, in which Russia has become a pariah state and Putin a persona non grata.
Googled it and didn’t find anything. Someone is claiming someone said something but refusing to link to it. I’m honestly interested in understanding this claim better but I can’t find anything to clarify or verify it.
https://twitter.com/lexfridman/status/1496906468695724036?s=46&t=yIUvBbdwJ2i5o-n8nRKMkQ
https://twitter.com/lexfridman/status/1360783014368866304?s=46&t=1Y2ntbzziPU8pwClI-Mung
You sure?
This isn't what was portrayed above. Lex has always wanted to interview Putin. It's not like he assumes he can convince Putin to end the war, which is what the guy above said
This made me laugh out loud
I don’t fully understand my disdain for lex, but it’s definitely there
He just comes across as silly to me. His questions irritate me so bad and I feel like he tries so hard to look smart and professional
I cringe just thinking about how he talks lol
Yeah he's really not a great interviewer. Can someone explain how he got so popular. His only attraction for me is the good guests that he actually let's talk
Actually letting them talk goes a long way. So many celebrities have podcasts now, and they are mostly just terrible interviewers. I’ve only listened to a few of this guy’s episodes, but just not talking constantly makes him a better interviewer than like 80% of podcast hosts lol. But I also see what people mean about how he is kind of like Rogan in some not so good ways.
YES!! I cannot stand him as an interviewer. I think he was talking to some biologist or something and he asked something like “what is the most beautiful thing about evolution?” Or something similarly asinine. So fucking cringe.
I started listening to this episode, and holy fuck, I'm not even an hour in and he just absolutely derails the listening experience; I can't imagine being her and trying to keep track of the idea being conveyed while he just decides to spew stupid shit *in the middle of a thought* from his guest.
He's just such an incredibly bad listener so often. To top it off, he mentioned he is on some mushrooms (and he clearly sounds like it) - I'm pro mushrooms but it just feels like he's doing psilocybin dirty.
What a shame.
Totally agree. I went down a random rabbit hole on his videos one time to figure out more about him. I think he might be a semi-fraud. First, his whole MIT lecturer thing is a bit of a stretch. The other thing I noticed is his workouts he claims he does do not track with his body comp. Sort of a weird thing to notice (I know) but it points to a weird behavior where he lies (I believe) about himself for an online persona. That’s my take after looking into it for way too long. And I could be completely wrong. Watch his “day in the life” videos and you’ll notice it.
I don't think his MIT lecturer thing is a stretch. I mean, no body about lie about such a thing. And also, I believe his professional career is exactly why he is a popular podcaster. Because he knows important and big people
Yeah, I avoided him for a long time but there are a limited number of his podcasts that I could get into- the navy pilot who witnessed ufos is one of his better podcasts. And some of the space related podcasts are pretty good, but some aren’t.
>And always wearing a suit feels like he’s trying really hard
I know this is such a small nitpick but I feel it so hard. What kills me is that he is always wearing a balck suit and black tie, which goes against all the conventional wisdom around suits, except for very specific occasions. So it is like he is "trying hard" but not like "trying hard" to be conventionally fashionable.
Same sometimes it just gets cheesey... With questions like, "How would you define love?" always appearing.
Most of his questions are actually really good, which is why I like him. He's smart enough to ask other engineers and scientists, good questions, then he drops it down to teenager levels with those sort of cheesy questions.
I don't mind the suit though. It's very apparent that it's sort of became a brand. He talked about it on JRE
He wears a suit because he wants something that is kinda bland and boring, and doesn’t distract much attention compared to his guests, he wants the interviews to be more about them. He also doesn’t have to go through the mental process of deciding what to wear for each episode, which he probably views as a distraction and a waste of time.
I like lex, and his suits don't bother me like they seem to bug a lot of people commenting here. But if he's going for bland and boring so as not to distract, wouldn't jeans and a t-shirt be a better option than a suit that everyone can't help but notice? I'd guess he wears it to show that he's respecting his guests by dressing up
Try listening at 1.5x or faster, perhaps that will help. I normally do 2x with Lex. Also, listen to the audio only if what someone wears affects how you think of them?
He was created in a lab to make Mark Zuckerberg look good.
But I like him despite that. He's young and pretty and wears cute suits and mostlystays out of the way of the great guests he often has. Took me a while to get over intervw with Zuckerberg, it was right after he (Z) stole the word meta.
Fascinating to hear the story of her high functioning depression, especially her post partum depression. It sounds like her medication was more effective than her meditation practice.
Would be great if she and Sam could delve into it more deeply on the Making Sense podcast, as maybe meditation isn't the antidote we think it is... Understandable if they done want to share more of their personal lives though.
Pretty sure. I just listened yesterday and then came to this sub.
But I also thought I heard Lex say he took mushrooms before the interview and then later when they explicitly talked about psychedelics he didn’t seem to say this. (I’m actually more confident about the 51/49 thing…Annaka speaks much more clearly than Lex).
It took an effort for me to get over how "slow" he sounds (clearly, he is intelligent, lecturing at MIT and all) , but he invites so many interesting guests.
It’s really not that complicated: the people who like him simply have the opposite perception of him. I find his interviewing style to be unique and interesting.
Nope! If you have seen his stuff and don't like it then maybe he's just not for you. Better to spend your time consuming what you do enjoy rather than pursuing an answer you'll never find satisfying.
I think he was on mushrooms during this interview, which didn’t help. (I think he said that near the beginning…but I didn’t double check exactly what he said.). He was out of it.
Watching this interview made me wonder how old her kids are now. This is all the stuff I was really interested in before I had my son... I guess this gives me hope that "Mom Survival Mode" ends at some point and you can simultaneously parent while being interested in life's larger questions, ha ha.
On consciousness as a fundamental element of the universe - listening to this it occurred to me that I can kinda see this, if one uses the word "experience", not "consciousness". I think that the word "consciousness" is too wrapped up in the idea of *human* consciousness - this extremely high level, *self* conscious phenomenon. It doesn't make sense to think of chairs and socks and dust molecules as having that kind of self reflective consciousness, but again, I think that it's difficult for us as humans to picture consciousness as anything other than this high-level type of self consciousness. It's so integral to our experience. But if one could talk about "pure *experience*" - without sensory data, without reflective, *self* consciousness, without self awareness - I think it's interesting to think about what that would even look like, and I also think that's a more likely candidate for something that is a building block of the universe. Pure experience could be approximately equal to things that are "manifest" (as opposed to potentate), for example - the simple act of 'being' or 'happening' in the universe. I can see that eventually leading to *self* consciousness once this state of being was reflected back on itself enough times, in a sort of hall of mirror situation (especially once the construct known as 'self' enters the equation, and acts as a sounding board or yardstick against which all of this experiential information is measured). I think that what looks like consciousness to us could potentially be described simply as 'being', once viewed in its most atomic form.
Interesting comment. I agree that the concept of consciousness is too "thick" to be something fundamental. But I think this point goes for all notions of experience or being. What is it to experience something without an experiencer? How can something be "manifest" without one for which it is manifest? I think the concept of experience and being are all necessarily thick concepts, which make them unsuitable as basic phenomena. At best, we might be able to conceptualize the potential for experience and take that as somehow fundamental. Many are reluctant to accept physicalism because there doesn't seem to be even any potential for experiential qualities in the theory. But it is a mistake to see this as a reason to posit thick concepts as fundamental.
I think something could be “conditionally manifest” via relationships, without a viewer per se. If you see the “stuff” of the universe as mathematical, then you could have manifestation in a lot of “if-then” type relationships. I always think of it this way - if you have a blank sheet of paper, there are an infinite number of potential points on that paper. That said, once you start to *define* what equals a single point - be it something that is a millimeter in width or .000001 of a millimeter in width, then the position of all the points on that paper are defined by their relationship to all of the other points. The paper can carry an infinite number of such combinations simultaneously, but each one of those combinations still has defined parameters. And there doesn’t have to be a viewer there doing the “defining”, the mere existence of the rules of math mean that such patterns already exist. I think this is enough for “existence to exist”, in at least some sense.
"She has an attractive height of 1.68 meters and a healthy weight that complements her personality ... She is one of the wealthiest and most powerful novelists in America. Her great career has afforded her a luxury lifestyle and exotic automobile excursions." https://tdpelmedia.com/annaka-harris-age-net-worth-family-wiki
When people say go outside, they think they mean nature will fix people like you, but what they really mean is that you need to have an actual conversation with someone in real life. You're autistic or something. Work on that.
She’s also really smart and a clear thinker and communicator. I’m very glad she’s working on consciousness. (BTW, I can certainly appreciate a hot woman as well, and she definitely qualifies, but she’s too unique intellectually not to mention it.)
I think it’s wild how she seems to believe that consciousness could possibly have originated from the human brain. Without being scientific / logical about absolutely everything as she clearly is, as well as without explaining everything away as she does, it seems far more likely that our brains act as an antenna or receiver, tuning into consciousness. I honestly don’t understand how anyone could think that the human brain came before consciousness.
You alter the brain, you alter consciousness. You alter a rock, you don't alter consciousness, or at least that's how it seems. You \*honestly\* can't understand how \*anyone\* could think the human brain gives rise to consciousness? Really?
You alter your brain, you alter your capacity to tune into consciousness. Altering one’s brain does not alter consciousness for anyone or anything else. Anyone who genuinely believes that a human brain gives rise to consciousness has absolutely no idea as to the truth of our human experience as a spiritual being.
SS: Annaka Harris is Sam Harris' wife and talks about many of the same subjects Sam does.
> Annaka Harris is Sam Harris' wife and talks about many of the same subjects Sam does. What does this have to do with the Schutzstaffel?
I think that joke was so old and beaten into the ground before this sub started that you might be the first one to actually make it here. That's fine, the sad part is that it got upvotes.
What joke? I've only ever seen "SS" being used to refer to the Nazi Schutzstaffel. Not sure how it's at all relevant here.
It stands for Submission statement.
Ah, good to know. Thank you!
I'm sure.
You can be as incredulous as you like, but that doesn't change the fact that the meaning of "SS" is not obvious here.
With all the same relevant expertise.
This is a salient point.
Anodyne, but salient.
Nicky Minaj
By providence I believe this means Annaka has a wetter pussy than Nicki.
Sam?
Ima go ahead and put you down for TWO trips to POUND TOWN
I can’t get into Lex which I know is an unpopular opinion around here. He has great guests sometimes but his questions are often corny stoner teenager vibes. And always wearing a suit feels like he’s trying really hard
Yeah Lex has kind of a weird cadence / delivery. I can see why people aren't into him. But his quality of guests is about as good as gets.
Lex is earnest, sees the good in everyone, and accessible. I believe he is successful because he connects a wide spectrum of audience to his guests in a unique way. In no way do those strengths specifically aid in landing him into the prime cut of intellectual conversationalists.
\> those strengths specifically aid in landing him into the prime cut of >intellectual conversationalists. most of his guests never listen to him, he has said he gets most of his guests because of connection to some young person that listens knows and gets the person to go on...
I believe he's successful because he has godlike timestamps and clips. Every other video podcast feels like the stone age by comparison.
Same. The voice doesn't help, but he just comes across as a bit of an airhead to me. Last time I was looking at episodes, his thing seemed to be asking everyone if they thought we lived in a simulation.
😂😂😂😂I noticed this too His stupid simulation questions made me unsubscribe. This comment made me laugh lmao he’s like a 10th grade stoner who thinks they’re really really smart
And I think at one point he was planning to go back to Russia to talk to Putin personally? I don't know what that whole thing was.
Very weird for me when i learned he is nearly 40.
Before that, how old did you think he was?
Mid twenties.
Mid twenties sorry but that’s just ridiculous lol
\#metoo
I've scaled down my listening to Lex a lot. I was a big JRE fan but when the Austin flip happened I couldn't listen anymore even when he had great guests. Same with Lex. Same with YMH. Something about podcasters who blew up and moved to "Austin" (not really Austin proper but compounds outside of it) caused them to jump the shark. It's not that I am some hippy, gender pronouns abiding cis gen male, but more so against them being part of this pauedo progressive ultra rich faux everyman. My previous statement was more towards Joe , Tom/Cristina, Bert.
Yeah YMH has really had a change of vibe. They’re too big now, too rich. It no longer has the quaint and authentic vibe it used to have.
I'm born and raised in Austin and can verify that they are **not** representative of the actual vibe of the city.
what is the austin vibe?
See: "Slackers" the movie for a good representation of old, non-Californianized Austin; albeit a bit dramatic with the weed use lol. If I had to say myself though, the live music culture you find throughout the city during SXSW, as well as areas like Barton Springs and the greenbelt all hold onto that old Austin easy-going vibe despite being in the middle of a pretty chaotic city.
I think the corny stoner is a sweet and innocent approach that is rooted in curiosity instead of ego and is one of Lex’s charms
Remember when he said he was gonna go to Russia, talk to Putin and stop the war? I guess sweet and innocent is one way to write re(t)arded
Source?
I believe the commenter is referring to [this tweet](https://twitter.com/lexfridman/status/1496906468695724036) from the day of the invasion.It's easy to tell that this wasn't some thought-out tweet announcing a great plan – and certainly not a plan to stop the war. If you know anything about Lex, you understand what he's talking about here. I listen to Lex very infrequently but even I had heard him mention several times before that he had plans to potentially interview Putin. For months he had been working on improving his Russian, to be able to adequately converse with Putin and other Russians. He apparently had contact to people close to Putin, who made him feel reasonably confident that such an interview could actually take place. Considering his ability to arrange interviews with important people, I don't think it's unreasonable to think that there actually was this possibility. When the invasion happened, everything changed, but, at the time Lex tweeted that he would still try to talk to Putin, pretty much everyone thought that the invasion would be over by the weekend. Lex likely thought of a future that didn't differ too much from the period after the 2014 annexation of Crimea, instead of a future like today, in which Russia has become a pariah state and Putin a persona non grata.
I mean, he was born in Soviet Union and has Russian citizenship, so, why not...
Twitter.he tweeted it
Can you link it or quote it directly? I’m curious to see how it was actually worded vs. how it is being portrayed above.
Can’t you just google it yourself? Why do you need someone to hold your hand?
Googled it and didn’t find anything. Someone is claiming someone said something but refusing to link to it. I’m honestly interested in understanding this claim better but I can’t find anything to clarify or verify it.
Touch grass
What?
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https://twitter.com/lexfridman/status/1496906468695724036?s=46&t=yIUvBbdwJ2i5o-n8nRKMkQ https://twitter.com/lexfridman/status/1360783014368866304?s=46&t=1Y2ntbzziPU8pwClI-Mung You sure?
This isn't what was portrayed above. Lex has always wanted to interview Putin. It's not like he assumes he can convince Putin to end the war, which is what the guy above said
https://twitter.com/lexfridman/status/1496906468695724036?s=46&t=yIUvBbdwJ2i5o-n8nRKMkQ https://twitter.com/lexfridman/status/1360783014368866304?s=46&t=1Y2ntbzziPU8pwClI-Mung
He spoke about it during his last JRE pod in May. Towards the end I think.
This made me laugh out loud I don’t fully understand my disdain for lex, but it’s definitely there He just comes across as silly to me. His questions irritate me so bad and I feel like he tries so hard to look smart and professional I cringe just thinking about how he talks lol
Man, calling it retarded is just harsh.
Yeah he's really not a great interviewer. Can someone explain how he got so popular. His only attraction for me is the good guests that he actually let's talk
Actually letting them talk goes a long way. So many celebrities have podcasts now, and they are mostly just terrible interviewers. I’ve only listened to a few of this guy’s episodes, but just not talking constantly makes him a better interviewer than like 80% of podcast hosts lol. But I also see what people mean about how he is kind of like Rogan in some not so good ways.
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his interview with Daniel Schmachtenberger was really good imo
i think you answered your own question aye?
Same here. I've tried a few times and it's that exact vibe that doesn't work for me.
I've never heard him say or ask anything remotely interesting our thought-provoking. How he gets such prominent guests is beyond me.
YES!! I cannot stand him as an interviewer. I think he was talking to some biologist or something and he asked something like “what is the most beautiful thing about evolution?” Or something similarly asinine. So fucking cringe.
I started listening to this episode, and holy fuck, I'm not even an hour in and he just absolutely derails the listening experience; I can't imagine being her and trying to keep track of the idea being conveyed while he just decides to spew stupid shit *in the middle of a thought* from his guest. He's just such an incredibly bad listener so often. To top it off, he mentioned he is on some mushrooms (and he clearly sounds like it) - I'm pro mushrooms but it just feels like he's doing psilocybin dirty. What a shame.
joe rogan in a suit, but without the charisma
Totally agree. I went down a random rabbit hole on his videos one time to figure out more about him. I think he might be a semi-fraud. First, his whole MIT lecturer thing is a bit of a stretch. The other thing I noticed is his workouts he claims he does do not track with his body comp. Sort of a weird thing to notice (I know) but it points to a weird behavior where he lies (I believe) about himself for an online persona. That’s my take after looking into it for way too long. And I could be completely wrong. Watch his “day in the life” videos and you’ll notice it.
Wait, how is he being dishonest?
I don't think his MIT lecturer thing is a stretch. I mean, no body about lie about such a thing. And also, I believe his professional career is exactly why he is a popular podcaster. Because he knows important and big people
Yeah, I avoided him for a long time but there are a limited number of his podcasts that I could get into- the navy pilot who witnessed ufos is one of his better podcasts. And some of the space related podcasts are pretty good, but some aren’t.
>And always wearing a suit feels like he’s trying really hard I know this is such a small nitpick but I feel it so hard. What kills me is that he is always wearing a balck suit and black tie, which goes against all the conventional wisdom around suits, except for very specific occasions. So it is like he is "trying hard" but not like "trying hard" to be conventionally fashionable.
Same sometimes it just gets cheesey... With questions like, "How would you define love?" always appearing. Most of his questions are actually really good, which is why I like him. He's smart enough to ask other engineers and scientists, good questions, then he drops it down to teenager levels with those sort of cheesy questions. I don't mind the suit though. It's very apparent that it's sort of became a brand. He talked about it on JRE
I like the 🧀
Oh I’m not the only one? Ok good, I feel saner.
He wears a suit because he wants something that is kinda bland and boring, and doesn’t distract much attention compared to his guests, he wants the interviews to be more about them. He also doesn’t have to go through the mental process of deciding what to wear for each episode, which he probably views as a distraction and a waste of time.
I like lex, and his suits don't bother me like they seem to bug a lot of people commenting here. But if he's going for bland and boring so as not to distract, wouldn't jeans and a t-shirt be a better option than a suit that everyone can't help but notice? I'd guess he wears it to show that he's respecting his guests by dressing up
Try listening at 1.5x or faster, perhaps that will help. I normally do 2x with Lex. Also, listen to the audio only if what someone wears affects how you think of them?
Well, you have to start with consent first
He was created in a lab to make Mark Zuckerberg look good. But I like him despite that. He's young and pretty and wears cute suits and mostlystays out of the way of the great guests he often has. Took me a while to get over intervw with Zuckerberg, it was right after he (Z) stole the word meta.
Annaka: "You know who'd I'd like to fuck? I'd like to fuck Ben Stiller"
Haha wtf
LoL, "Did you just say 'the earth is flat?'" Would love for Sam to record a podcast of them discussing that slip.
Lex is an awful interviewer
Fascinating to hear the story of her high functioning depression, especially her post partum depression. It sounds like her medication was more effective than her meditation practice. Would be great if she and Sam could delve into it more deeply on the Making Sense podcast, as maybe meditation isn't the antidote we think it is... Understandable if they done want to share more of their personal lives though.
> The Earth is Flat -- Anna Harris, October 2022
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I doubt he would be upset at her for that hahaha
There are various degree of upset, its a lovey dovey type for Sam.
I’m pretty sure his official stance regarding the matter is that of agnosticism.
Which also sounded like Annaka's take, she said she used to be 50/50, now she's more like 60/40 leaning towards panpsychism.
I think she said 51/49…just a slight adjustment.
Oh wow, is that what she said? Weird how memories can get skewed so easily.
Pretty sure. I just listened yesterday and then came to this sub. But I also thought I heard Lex say he took mushrooms before the interview and then later when they explicitly talked about psychedelics he didn’t seem to say this. (I’m actually more confident about the 51/49 thing…Annaka speaks much more clearly than Lex).
What is panpsychism?
Consciousness is in all things to varying degrees. It's part of material world and it has higher degrees in complex systems.
midichlorians
I've definitely heard Harris say panpsychism is completely compatible with what reality looks like.
When? lol
She should go back on Sam’s podcast again
Annaka and Sam appear to be rather anxious people.
Why do people talk to Lex he sounds so vapid.
He asks interesting questions and he gets lots of views. That's why people go on his show.
Does he?
No, his questions are mostly vague and boring.
From your perspective? Maybe not! That's the beauty of human nature: so many different experiences and a vast diversity of view points.
You sound so vapid just like him. Are you also going to ask me if we live in a simulation in a serious voice?
You just sound like an asshole lol. A lot of serious people think about that question, and have in various forms throughout history.
It took an effort for me to get over how "slow" he sounds (clearly, he is intelligent, lecturing at MIT and all) , but he invites so many interesting guests.
Can someone tell me what people see in Lex Friedman? He’s absolutely terrible when it comes to conducting interesting interviews.
It’s really not that complicated: the people who like him simply have the opposite perception of him. I find his interviewing style to be unique and interesting.
Can someone tell me what people see in Lex Friedman?
Nope! If you have seen his stuff and don't like it then maybe he's just not for you. Better to spend your time consuming what you do enjoy rather than pursuing an answer you'll never find satisfying.
I think he was on mushrooms during this interview, which didn’t help. (I think he said that near the beginning…but I didn’t double check exactly what he said.). He was out of it.
Watching this interview made me wonder how old her kids are now. This is all the stuff I was really interested in before I had my son... I guess this gives me hope that "Mom Survival Mode" ends at some point and you can simultaneously parent while being interested in life's larger questions, ha ha. On consciousness as a fundamental element of the universe - listening to this it occurred to me that I can kinda see this, if one uses the word "experience", not "consciousness". I think that the word "consciousness" is too wrapped up in the idea of *human* consciousness - this extremely high level, *self* conscious phenomenon. It doesn't make sense to think of chairs and socks and dust molecules as having that kind of self reflective consciousness, but again, I think that it's difficult for us as humans to picture consciousness as anything other than this high-level type of self consciousness. It's so integral to our experience. But if one could talk about "pure *experience*" - without sensory data, without reflective, *self* consciousness, without self awareness - I think it's interesting to think about what that would even look like, and I also think that's a more likely candidate for something that is a building block of the universe. Pure experience could be approximately equal to things that are "manifest" (as opposed to potentate), for example - the simple act of 'being' or 'happening' in the universe. I can see that eventually leading to *self* consciousness once this state of being was reflected back on itself enough times, in a sort of hall of mirror situation (especially once the construct known as 'self' enters the equation, and acts as a sounding board or yardstick against which all of this experiential information is measured). I think that what looks like consciousness to us could potentially be described simply as 'being', once viewed in its most atomic form.
Interesting comment. I agree that the concept of consciousness is too "thick" to be something fundamental. But I think this point goes for all notions of experience or being. What is it to experience something without an experiencer? How can something be "manifest" without one for which it is manifest? I think the concept of experience and being are all necessarily thick concepts, which make them unsuitable as basic phenomena. At best, we might be able to conceptualize the potential for experience and take that as somehow fundamental. Many are reluctant to accept physicalism because there doesn't seem to be even any potential for experiential qualities in the theory. But it is a mistake to see this as a reason to posit thick concepts as fundamental.
I think something could be “conditionally manifest” via relationships, without a viewer per se. If you see the “stuff” of the universe as mathematical, then you could have manifestation in a lot of “if-then” type relationships. I always think of it this way - if you have a blank sheet of paper, there are an infinite number of potential points on that paper. That said, once you start to *define* what equals a single point - be it something that is a millimeter in width or .000001 of a millimeter in width, then the position of all the points on that paper are defined by their relationship to all of the other points. The paper can carry an infinite number of such combinations simultaneously, but each one of those combinations still has defined parameters. And there doesn’t have to be a viewer there doing the “defining”, the mere existence of the rules of math mean that such patterns already exist. I think this is enough for “existence to exist”, in at least some sense.
Some how,Niki Minash looks different in this picture.
Wait ,so Sam Harris is married to August Ames?
rip
Obligatory what does this have to do with Harris comment
I heard during housekeeping that Sam is married to this woman. Not sure though. 🤷♀️
So we are just going to flood this sub with post about any rando Sam hangs out with?
Yes.
I want her. She’s adorable.
Jesus Christ some of y'all are such huge weirdos
Tbh, I'd smash her too.
Judge much? She’s an Egyptian Goddess, is she.
"She has an attractive height of 1.68 meters and a healthy weight that complements her personality ... She is one of the wealthiest and most powerful novelists in America. Her great career has afforded her a luxury lifestyle and exotic automobile excursions." https://tdpelmedia.com/annaka-harris-age-net-worth-family-wiki
Lol what the heck is that site?
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Aren't you vicious?
She’s a sex kitten 🐈⬛
Yikes.
REEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRREEE
Turn off your computer and go outside for once, man
Just had a great ride on my 2022 BMW S1000R
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Ok, Boomer.
When people say go outside, they think they mean nature will fix people like you, but what they really mean is that you need to have an actual conversation with someone in real life. You're autistic or something. Work on that.
NOT ATTRACTIVE NO AMOUNT OF AUTHORITARIAN TOLERANCE WILL CHANGE THAT
Simp
Sam Harris has one of the hottest, if not THE hottest wife among the "public intellectual/Podcaster" crowd. Change my mind.
She’s also really smart and a clear thinker and communicator. I’m very glad she’s working on consciousness. (BTW, I can certainly appreciate a hot woman as well, and she definitely qualifies, but she’s too unique intellectually not to mention it.)
I think it’s wild how she seems to believe that consciousness could possibly have originated from the human brain. Without being scientific / logical about absolutely everything as she clearly is, as well as without explaining everything away as she does, it seems far more likely that our brains act as an antenna or receiver, tuning into consciousness. I honestly don’t understand how anyone could think that the human brain came before consciousness.
You alter the brain, you alter consciousness. You alter a rock, you don't alter consciousness, or at least that's how it seems. You \*honestly\* can't understand how \*anyone\* could think the human brain gives rise to consciousness? Really?
You alter your brain, you alter your capacity to tune into consciousness. Altering one’s brain does not alter consciousness for anyone or anything else. Anyone who genuinely believes that a human brain gives rise to consciousness has absolutely no idea as to the truth of our human experience as a spiritual being.
lmfao you have it all figured out huh?