#282 - Do You Really Have a Self?
Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content
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The Neurological Case for the Illusion of the Self
The neurological case for the illusoryness of the self is quite straightforward. We don't have reality in hand outside of our experience of it and the extensions of our experience that are the kind of tools we rely on scientifically. But as a matter of experience, there really is only experience. And again, it is a constructed reality. You can stop representing a self inside the body and still have a representation of a world and of your body in that world. This is not a thing. This is a process which can become deranged based on neurological injury or you can take a drug that makes you feel all of a sudden very differently. There's a body swapping illusion that you can provoke
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