#268 - The Limits of Self-Knowledge
Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content
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The Paradox of Not Knowing
I find the idea of obviously you don't want any brain disorder is not something you'd wish to have but for me it feels more much more frightening I guess to have that kind of fade out of self-knowledge. The whole regions of cognition could be closing down and unless the environment or other people are continually hammering us with the evidence of our ignorance you could imagine that it's we could be the last to know in the end. We've been starting to think okay we now have this evidence this line of work that suggests we could intervene and perhaps boost medical cognition boost self-awareness might even be useful clinically.
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