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Joscha Bach: belief

1 Aug 2023 Lex Fridman Podcast #392 – Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans

“I suspect, it’s a favorite training goal for a number of meditators. But I think that enlightenment is, in some sense, more mundane, and it’s a step further, or sideways.”

— Joscha Bach

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Speaker
Joscha Bach
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
1 Aug 2023
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Why is it so hard to get there? A lot of people who get into the state think this, or associate it with enlightenment. I suspect, it’s a favorite training goal for a number of meditators. But I think that enlightenment is, in some sense, more mundane, and it’s a step further, or sideways. It’s the state where you realize that everything is a representation. Yeah. You say enlightenment is a realization of how experience is implemented.…

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