Your self changes over the lifetime. You only have to read things that you wrote when you were 16, or you can suddenly, you don't recognize. The brain has a whole set of biases to try and reframe and keep that continuity of self all the time. So we've got these ways of changing the story, to tweaking it all the time to keep it consistent. And that's why the sense itself is so compelling.
In this episode we discuss the self and interview Bruce Hood, author of "The Self Illusion." Also, at the end, we eat a chewy chocolate chip cookie and discuss therapeutic touch.
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