Why I Am Not a Buddhist (Robert Wright & Evan Thompson)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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The Self Is an Ongoing Construction
The self is an ongoing construction. So I don't dismiss the self as just an outright illusion. The self is something that's enacted in a kind of ongoing, constructive way. It's not a sort of independently existing thing apart from the dance. And there are many things that enter into that, biological, social, cultural, evolutionary, and so on.
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