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Your identity is a story you tell yourself
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The Next Frontier in Self-Understanding
I think progress can be made in understanding how we choose to continue the analogy, which are those lo-fi simulations you want to adopt at a particular moment in time. You may have different lo-fi characters of yourself in your head and you choose to trot them out in different circumstances. So I think we're really close to understanding how that happens. And then once we do that, then we can take control of that process,. Whether it's through psychedelics or whether it's through a targeted introspection or conversations like this. That's the thing. These stories are made up and they can be revised. But because we're embedded in this social world and we have relationships and connections
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