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Sam Harris + INTJ (x) Systemic thinking

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Sam Harris + INTJ

“If you want to understand how I see Trump, blow up a balloon without tying off the end, hold it up high, and then release it. Then watch if fly chaotically around the room, that’s Trump’s mind.”

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In meditation, what you’re noticing is a core of sameness to every experience. What you’re focusing on is the qualitative character of consciousness that is unchanged by experience. So the distinctness of an experience isn’t what is so salient. What is salient is the unchanging quality of consciousness in its openness, its centerlessness, its vividness. (...) The Tibetan buddhists talk about “one taste”. Basically there’s a single taste to everything when you really pay attention. And it is because these intrinsic properties of consciousness are what have become salient, not the differences between experiences.

Sam Harris (Waking Up with Sam Harris #113 — Consciousness and the Self (with Anil K. Seth))

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MBTI & Celebs (x) Sam Harris: INTJ

“I’m almost as embarrassed by the word spirituality as every other atheist. I’m not comfortable with my use of it. The problem is, we just don’t have a good word for this domain.”

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Sam Harris + INTJ (x)

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What Happened to Liberalism (Waking Up with Sam Harris - #99 with Mark Lilla, Sep 27 2017)

Sam Harris:

“Say I’m incredibly impatient to get my daughter seen [by a doctor], she is extremely uncomfortable, I’m advocating for her at the desk.

And the nurse or doctor looks at me and says: ‘We’ll see her exactly as soon as we can, this patient over here is before you, this patient is going into cardiac arrest.’

The answer to that from me, if I’m an ethical, sane human being, isn’t: ‘Fuck you, my daughter is the most important child on earth.’”

Mark Lilla:

“But what if there are two children, they can only have one child, in terms of triage there is no difference between the two of them. You’re not gonna advocate for your child?”

Sam Harris:

“If you push me truly into extremis, and we truly have an emergency on our hands, and one child is essentially going to die, then I can’t really attest to how sane I will be.

But I’ll tell you who I think I should be in those moments, is someone who doesn’t lose his awareness of the fact that other people are just as important to themselves, and their children are just as important to them, as I am to myself and my child is to me.

There is a stepping out of oneself, a kind of view from nowhere, that is a norm.

When we’re making laws, and building institutions, and designing our society, that’s precisely what we try to hold onto.

There a kind of Rawlsian veil of ignorance here that is so incredibly useful because it is clarifying of the kind of fragmentation you are describing here, of mere identity. ‘This is my team and it’s us against the world.’”

Mark Lilla:

“I agree with you ideally about our institutions. The problem about all those principles is that they don’t always motivate action, which is what we want.

We don’t want people to have their ethics right, we want them to actually do the right thing.

And that requires appealing to something that makes you listen to reason, and that’s an emotion. (...)

I’m getting the impression that you want a world bled of these identity commitments.”