#179 — The Unquiet Mind

Making Sense with Sam Harris

• Episode: #179 — The Unquiet Mind
• Website: Making Sense with Sam Harris
• Feed URL: http://wakingup.libsyn.com/rss
• Duration: 00:34:01
• Published: 2019-12-17 15:21

In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Judson Brewer about addiction, craving, and mindfulness. They discuss the nature of reward-based learning, the role of subjective bias in addiction, the neuroscience of craving, the neural correlates of the sense of self, real-time neuroimaging, effort and effortlessness in meditation, smoking cessation through mindfulness, the difference between dopamine-driven reward and happiness, how to make meditation a habit, working with anxiety, and other topics.

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