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328. Paul Bloom — Psych: The Story of the Human Mind

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Self Is a Fuzzy Set of Characteristics

The self is like a fuzzy set of characteristics that can bounce around within a bounded category. And it will change gradually over time, but there's an interesting sense in which you're the same person you were when you were one years old. Can you imagine that there'd be a case of change that's so radical? You would say that you cease to exist.

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