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#579 Valerie Hardcastle: The Self, Consciousness, Pain, and Abnormal Psychology

The Dissenter

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Is the Self Really a Thing?

Is the self really a thing? I mean, i'm asking you, because there are several people that say it's not. But would you call it an illusion or some sort of useful belief? Well, i guess i would call it a a useful belief, or i would say it's a very simple term for a very complicated process which is something else that will be a theme as we go through our conversation. Most of the stuff that we think about, we give it a very simple name. Oh, that's pain. Oh, That's consciousness. And when we get down into it, it's not at all.

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