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On this episode of the Andrew Yang Podcast, Sam Wang (also endorsed by Lawrence Lessig) joins Andrew to talk about fixing American democracy. A Princeton neuroscientist and electoral reform researcher, Sam has spent 20 years applying math and data to the problems plaguing our elections, and has now decided to run for Congress himself in New Jersey's 12th district. They dig into what the research shows about open primaries, ranked-choice voting, and gerrymandering reform, and why Sam thinks this race is winnable.

00:00 - Intro
01:29 - From Neuroscience to Politics
04:58 - One Iowan is Worth 1K Californians
09:50 - The Laboratory of Democracy
14:38 - Sons of Mathematicians
18:04 - Forced to Pick Sides
22:05 - Why Sam is Running
24:53 - The Race in New Jersey
32:07 - From Classroom to Campaign

What you perceive as reality is a controlled hallucination your brain constructs moment by moment. And you are part of it.

Unraveling the Dream explores what happens when that construction begins to fall apart—when the boundary between you and the world disintegrates, and the sense of self drops away.

Revisiting Aldous Huxley’s early experiments with mescaline, examining the latest neuroscience of consciousness, and drawing on interviews with leading researchers, the film follows a central question:

What are we, really, when the illusion dissolves?

And once we’ve seen it, how do we live it?

Featuring:
Anil Seth
Robin Carhart-Harris
Shamil Chandaria

Michael Weiss has been on Making Sense more than once. Tim Miller has been on Making Sense recently, and Sam was on his show before that.