Essentials: Using Meditation to Focus, View Consciousness & Expand Your Mind | Dr. Sam Harris

Jul 23, 2026 · 41 min · YouTube

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0:00Welcome to Huberman Lab Essentials, where we revisit past episodes for the most potent and actionable science-based tools for mental health, physical health, and performance.

0:11I'm Andrew Huberman, and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine.

0:17And now for my discussion with Dr.

0:19Sam Harris.

0:20Dr.

0:21Sam Harris.

0:22What is this thing that we call a self?

0:25As far as I know, we have not localized the region in the brain that can entirely account for our awareness of self.

0:33The problem is we use the term self in so many different ways, right?

0:37And there's one sense of that term which is the target of meditation, and you'll hear it from me, that this self is an illusion, right?

0:47And that there's a psychological freedom that can be experienced on the other side of discovering it to be an illusion.

0:54And some people don't like that framing.

0:55Some people would insist that it's not so much an illusion, but it's a construct and it's not what it seems.

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