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The Science of "Self" with Dr. Jud Brewer

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

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Is There Such a Being?

i like that distinction, of course, between ideas about me and also the experiences of things happening to me. It's been helpful for me to distinguish among consciousness person and self. Consciousness is the totality of our experiencial world in flow continuously. There's a mind body process that has a certain stability and coherence overtime. We continually have these experiences at which it seems like there is a semi coherent i who is witnessing experiences or is the agent of actions,. On the other hand, is there actually such a one? Either experientially, when you look closely at your own experience, is theresuch a one?

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