Making Sense with Sam Harris
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Sam Harris
#226 — The Price of Distraction
44 minutes Posted Nov 27, 2020 at 11:04 pm.
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Sam Harris speaks with Adam Gazzaley about the way our technology is changing us. They discuss our limited ability to process information, our failures of multitasking, "top-down" vs "bottom-up" attention, self-interruptions and switching costs, anxiety, boredom, "digital medicine," neuroplasticity, video games for training the mind, the future of brain-machine interface, and other topics.

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