The Self Delusion, the New Neuroscience of How We Invent and Recreate Our Identities

The self is a delusion in a way. You know, even at the most basic level, if you think about it, physically, those are different people. There's no way that you could say that the childhood version of you was the same person that you are today. And yet we have this illusion and almost to the extreme, a delusion that we have always been the same person.