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#282 - Do You Really Have a Self?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Neuroscience of the Self

The self is much more like an unnamed virus than a dollar that was the mere invention of people at a certain moment in time. And I think that we have to be really careful when we go from how things seem to us to how they are, because of course we're all subject to illusions of all kinds. But as a matter of phenomenology, there's a simple point of view that is as undeniable as any conceivable feature of experience and so none of what you've said has put that into question.

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