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#282 — Do You Really Have a Self?
Making Sense with Sam Harris
The Self Illusion
In most indian philosophical traditions, including the buddhist tradition, an illusion is always defined as something that exists in one way but appears in another. So when i talk about the self illusion, i'm going to be n about the person existing as a person, but often illusorily taken to be a self. And so while i argue in the book that the self is a non existent thing and a cime era, i am not denying that we exist as persons. El that sounds crazy, but it is how we think.
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