#322 - Predicting Reality

<p dir="ltr">Sam Harris speaks with Andy Clark about the predictive brain, embodied cognition, and the extended mind. They discuss the structure of perception, novelty, precision, pain, psychedelics, emotion, ways to hack our predictions, hypnosis, meditation, artificial intelligence, consciousness, and other topics.</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Andy Clark</strong> is Professor of Cognitive Philosophy at the University of Sussex. He is the author of several books including <em><a href="https://amzn.to/43yi4WL" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Surfing Uncertainty</a></em>, <em><a href="https://amzn.to/3qDygas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mindware</a></em>, <em><a href="https://amzn.to/45YZFnq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supersizing the Mind</a></em>, <em><a href="https://amzn.to/3X0odZe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Being There</a></em>, and most recently, <em><a href="https://amzn.to/3oZBF2V" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Experience Machine</a></em>. His academic interests include artificial intelligence, embodied and extended cognition, robotics, and computational neuroscience.&nbsp;</p> <p dir="ltr">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/CogsAndy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@CogsAndy</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Website: <a href="https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p493-andy-clark">https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p493-andy-clark</a></p> <p dir="ltr">&nbsp;</p> <p dir="ltr">Learning how to train your mind is the single greatest investment you can make in life. That&rsquo;s why Sam Harris created the <a href="http://wakingup.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Waking Up</a> app. From rational mindfulness practice to lessons on some of life&rsquo;s most important topics, join Sam as he demystifies the practice of meditation and explores the theory behind it.</p>