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#282 — Do You Really Have a Self?
Making Sense with Sam Harris
The Self Illusion
The self has the properties of priority and unity, subject duality and agency. And perhaps the self is much more like a an unnamed virus than it is like a dollar that was the mere invention of people at a certain moment and time. We have to be really careful when we go from how things seem to us to how they are. The real locust classic is for that, of course, in the western tradition, is saint augustine who basically invented the idea of free will.
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