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#282 - Do You Really Have a Self?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Inner Homunculus

Most people don't feel identical to their bodies. They feel that they're appropriating the body from some position of subjectivity very likely in the head, right? This connects us to the perennial debate about the nature of free will. And it's that inner homunculus that sense that you're behind your eyes as a subject. In those moments, your body is in some sense part of the world, right? You are the inner man or woman and everything else is out there.

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