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#282 - Do You Really Have a Self?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Language in Hyper Social Beings

The self simply falls out of the equation. It's not part of that illusion isn't one that's propagated by our best science. And so we end up being constructed as autonomous beings who enter a world and then interact with it, but we're constructed and emerge out of a world that is both physical and social. Everything we are reflects that fact and reflects that constant interdependence between our bodies and the physical environment around us. You just can't understand who we are without that.

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