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Dec 31, 2022

After creating a couple of pilots for my podcast doc series, I've decided to move forward with the filmmaker, Jay Shapiro. We're going to hit the ground running Jan 1, weaving together my conversations with

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Nov 23, 2022

My new guided meditation series is now available to all on my website here:

Metta for Everyone Metta for Everyone A Guided Meditation Series for Cultivating Compassion Kaleidoscope Images: kittykatfish via Flickr Also available in the Wakin…

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Treat California Initiative

Jan 30

TREAT California Initiative will create a $5 Billion state funding agency entirely dedicated to mental health treatment, using psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT) and other novel therapeutics. Learn more:

treatcalifornia.org

TikTok is a New Kind of Superweapon

Jonathan Haidt

@JonHaidt

Jan 23

This is a fascinating essay on two thinkers (Chinese and British) whose goal was to help Western capitalism to destroy itself, and how the CCP may now see TikTok as a way to do that.

gurwinder.substack.com

The ultimate weapon of mass distraction

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‎The Daily: Arrests, Executions and the Iranian Protesters Who Refuse to Give Up on Apple Podcasts

‎Show The Daily, Ep Arrests, Executions and the Iranian Protesters Who Refuse to Give Up - Jan 27, 2023

The Pregnant Scientist Who Raced Against Death to Transform Physics

Jan 27

The Pregnant Scientist Who Raced Against Death to Transform Physics

@mattgrantwriter

@Narratively

narratively.com/the-pregnant-s…

narratively.com

In 1749, Emilie du Châtelet feared bearing a child at 42 would be the last thing she did. In her final year, she worked furiously on a magnum opus that would change the world.

Metta for Everyone | Waking Up

Nov 17, 2022

I struggled with Metta practice for years, but through my work teaching children, I found a new way to approach my own practice. I hope this series helps others connect to the transformative exercise of cultivating compassion. My new series for

@wakingup

dynamic.wakingup.com

Open the door to a deeper understanding of yourself—with guided meditations and insights for living a more examined life.

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Richard Feynman. Why.

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Uncharitable Movie Official Site - Uncharitable

danpallotta

@danpallotta

Jan 23

Five years in the making. Announcing, “Uncharitable,” a documentary movie to liberate the nonprofit sector's true power. Premiers in NY at Lincoln Center 3-28, in L.A. at the Director's Guild 3-30. In select theaters in April. Streaming in May. Trailer:

uncharitablemovie.com

Uncharitable will change everything you’ve ever thought or been taught about charity, giving, solving the great problems of human suffering that have plagued humanity since the beginning of time and...

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How to tell the difference between a regular black hole and a wormhole | New Scientist

Jan 25

“They found that because of the differences in the shape of spacetime, the light that travelled around a wormhole could be more than 8 times as polarised as the same light from a regular black hole…”

@newscientist

article by

@DownHereOnEarth

newscientist.com

Physicists have worked out how to see whether a black hole is actually a wormhole that could theoretically be travelled through – but we can’t tell yet with the black holes we have observed

A Vaccine for Depression? - Nautilus

Jan 25

This is still one of the most interesting / helpful articles I've read about depression and SSRIs, by

@taylorbeck216

for

@NautilusMag

nautil.us

Ketamine’s remarkable effect bolsters a new theory of mental illness.

How Is Your Phone Powered? Problematically.

I am grateful to the

for a very thoughtful Book Review of "Cobalt Red"

@StMartinsPress

nytimes.com

Siddharth Kara’s “Cobalt Red” takes a deep dive into the horrors of mining the valuable mineral — and the many who benefit from others’ suffering.

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The January 2023 Newsletter: bit.ly/3iJYUuG

Jan 12

I attempted another "Short." This time on emergence:

On the Emergence of Consciousness

On the Emergence of Consciousness On the Emergence of Consciousness Annaka Harris If we want to explain consciousness as an emergent phenomenon, we have to think carefully about what this means. Th…

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Jan 9

Today’s release on The Best of Making Sense feed: "#159 CONSCIOUS. Sam speaks with his wife, Annaka Harris, about her book, CONSCIOUS: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind." samharris.org/podcasts/makin

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Consciousness may not require a brain

Dec 8, 2022

An excerpt from my book, "Conscious, (consciousthebook.com) was published in

@IAI_TV

magazine today:

iai.tv

Our default intuition when it comes to consciousness is that humans and some other animals have it, whereas plants and trees don’t. But how sure can we be that plants aren’t conscious? And what if...

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The “Psychonauts” Training to Explore Another Dimension

The New Republic

@newrepublic

Jan 5

A mechanical elf is a popular recurring visitor in psychedelic DMT trips.

newrepublic.com

Meet the Americans who are exploring new frontiers in hallucinogenic research through a nascent technology known as extended-state DMT.

Listen to this episode from The Joe Rogan Experience on Spotify. Siddharth Kara is an author and expert on modern-day slavery, human trafficking, and child labor. Look for his new book, "Cobalt...

#1914 - Thank you ⁦

⁩ for providing a global platform for this crucial story about the unconscionable conditions of cobalt mining in the Congo. ⁦

@StMartinsPress

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, Lee Smolin, Christof Koch, and more. I'm looking forward to finally sharing the series with all of you sometime in 2023! Stay tuned for updates.

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Aug 24, 2022

Whether consciousness is emergent or fundamental, it’s as physical as everything else in the universe (however, when we look closely, matter loses all sense of the word “physical”). I remain agnostic, but I’m betting consciousness goes all the way down.

The Future of Panpsychism

A Solution to the Combination Problem and the Future of Panpsychism The following is invited commentary on Philip Goff’s “Galileo’s Error” for the Journal of Consciousness Studies, Spec…

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Making Sense of Consciousness

Anil Seth

@anilkseth

Dec 16, 2022

"Making sense of consciousness" - episode 2 of The Essential Sam Harris is out now. I'm in it, along with

, Thomas Metzinger,

, and

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In this episode, we survey the landscape of consciousness and get acquainted with the mystery of the mind.

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Treat California Initiative

Dec 14, 2022

This initiative to get CA gov funding for research on psychedelic-assisted therapies is VERY exciting. Learn more here:

treatcalifornia.org

! dailygalaxy.com/2022/12/does-c

Dec 14, 2022

Thanks for sharing my work in your weekend post,

@dailygalaxy

Dec 13, 2022

Important research on psychedelic-assisted therapy by the wonderful team at

@PacificNeuroPNI

! A new study is enrolling now for those who are interested and live in SoCal.

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@PacificNeuroPNI

Dec 12, 2022

Anxiety Research study - Enrolling: Seeking individuals with anxiety symptoms who are interested in possible participation in a clinical research trial. If interested, contact PacificTRIP.org: (310) 582-7611. #clinicaltrial #research #study #mind #anxiety

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Misha

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Dec 11, 2022

Lex Fridman Podcast with

@lexfridman

Conversations about the nature of intelligence, consciousness, love, and power. Must listen ep: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality with

‎Lex Fridman Podcast: #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality on...

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An excerpt from my book, "Conscious, (consciousthebook.com) was published in

@IAI_TV

magazine today:

iai.tv

Consciousness may not require a brain

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What the Tiny Cluster of Brain Cells in My Lab Are Telling Me - Nautilus

Dec 7, 2022

"The augmented organoid...could potentially restore a lost or forgotten image and the memories and emotions associated with them. This would represent a synthetic consciousness with far greater versatility than a hard-wired computer chip."—

@KosikLab

nautil.us

I’ve created organoids that, surprisingly, have a lot to say about how the brain works.

Joseph Goldstein on How to Understand Selflessness - Tricycle

Dec 7, 2022

"Compassion is the activity of emptiness of self."—Joseph Goldstein

@onedharma

via

@tricyclemag

tricycle.org

Meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein explains the central Buddhist concept of no self and how selflessness naturally leads to lovingkindness.

Dreamachine

@Drea_m_achine

Nov 9, 2022

Explore how you perceive the world around you by taking part in #ThePerceptionCensus. Developed by #Dreamachine scientists and philosophers, you'll learn more about how your mind works through a series of fun tasks: perceptioncensus.dreamachine.world/?utm_source=tw

Dec 3, 2022

“One thing that’s difficult for us to gain an intuition for is the fact that even though the brain, as a system, is capable of an uncountable number of sequences of behaviors, that doesn’t mean it’s capable of all those behaviors in every moment in time.”

Experiencing the Universe Unfold

Experiencing the Universe Unfold Experiencing the Universe Unfold Annaka Harris One of the reasons meditation practice and psychedelic-assisted therapy cause people to feel “at one with the univers…

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Dec 2, 2022

Science doesn’t stamp out mystery, it leads to greater mysteries.

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Dan Harris

@danbharris

Nov 29, 2022

Metta meditation — which also goes by the rather treacly name “lovingkindness” — has been transformative for me. But I had to get over myself first. Now comes my friend

with metta for people who hate metta! Wish I had this years ago. annakaharris.com/metta-for-ever FREE!

Metta for Everyone Metta for Everyone A Guided Meditation Series for Cultivating Compassion Kaleidoscope Images: kittykatfish via Flickr Also available in the Wakin…

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Stephen Wolfram — Personal Productivity Systems, Richard Feynman Stories, Computational Thinking as...

Tim Ferriss

@tferriss

Nov 24, 2022

NEW podcast episode is up! 🙌 "Stephen Wolfram (

@stephen_wolfram

) — Personal Productivity Systems, Richard Feynman Stories, Computational Thinking as a Superpower, Perceiving a Branching Universe, and The Ruliad… The Biggest Object in Metascience"

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Interview with Stephen Wolfram on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast

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Sam Harris | #304 - Why I Left Twitter

Nov 28, 2022

Sam at his best—thoughtful and insightful. This is an important one for our times:

samharris.org

Sam Harris explains why he deleted his Twitter account.

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