340. Ben Alderson-Day — Presence: The Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Self Is a Fuzzy Set of Characteristics
The self is kind of a fuzzy set of characteristics most of us have a little variation. Maybe we kind of intuitively give ourselves the big five personality you know I'm introverted here and extroverted there. The last bit of the book was originally going to discuss exactly that idea. There's a final section called a circle of meaning the idea that you draw meaning from that circle of family resemblances. Don't think look which is what begins starting to structure to do when we assume essences, he says.
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