#181 - The Illusory Self
Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content
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The Solipsistic Denial of Mortality
Hofstadter: Harding's assertion that he has no head must be read in the first person's sense. The man was not claiming to have been literally decapitated. From a first-person point of view, his emphasis on headlessness is a stroke of genius," Hofstadter writes. "We have here been presented with a charmingly childish and solipsistic view of the human condition"
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