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004 - The Self

You Are Not So Smart

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The Differences of Self in the Far East and the West

David Frum: If we know the self as an illusion, then what is it that we're actually noticing in their message? He says there's a lot of variance even with genetically identical individuals. And I explore this to some extent in the book talking about the differences between concepts of self in the Far East and in the West. But here's an interesting fact - if you try that same test with children from the East, they're much better.

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