Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content cover image

#282 - Do You Really Have a Self?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

00:00

The Volintoss of Will

The self isn't something that we just found because to find it, we'd have to find something that was causally exempt. And when we look at who we are, how we act and how we understand, what we discover is a complex of constantly changing phenomena. When we see ourselves as organisms meshed in a causal nexus with natural identity, then you begin to see an identity that's very different from the eye that I am when I succumb to the self-illusion.

Transcript
Play full episode

The AI-powered Podcast Player

Save insights by tapping your headphones, chat with episodes, discover the best highlights - and more!
App store bannerPlay store banner
Get the app