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#282 - Do You Really Have a Self?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Natural Attitude of Subject Object Duality

The idea of self is a complete superimposition on our experience. It's generated by constructing complicated representations of the external and the inner world based upon sensory stimulation. And so if you take this duality seriously, you notice that it doesn't actually constrain what consciousness is in itself as a matter of experience.

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