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#282 - Do You Really Have a Self?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Illusion of a Self

In Greek we get the Sukei, the kind of soul that then works its way into the Judaic and Christian and Islamic traditions. And what we get then is a kind of sophisticated philosophical theory about what that self might be like. Those theories are kind of like theories of how deep the water is in a mirage. You start out with something that doesn't exist and then try to figure out what its nature is.

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