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#282 - Do You Really Have a Self?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Non-Duality of Experience

The world you see with your eyes open is the same place where your mind is, says Ravi Agrawal. You can illustrate that for yourself by just visualizing something and foisting it upon the world. When you're broadcasting objects there, you're dealing with a top down modulation of activity in your visual cortex. We have this powerful instinct to take our visual faculty to deliver the world to us just as it is, but we know that doesn't make any sense.

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