I Love Peanut Butter and Orange Cookies, Mary Neer

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Mary Neer: I like to have no idea what the chocolate is going to be, even though it comes with that little instruction sheet thing at the top. So they pull off the sheet and you go, "Oh my God, this is a white gravy, lemon coconut cluster" She says she will always do it when she makes peanut butter cookies. A book is headed your way, Mary Neer.

Is the person you believe to be the protagonist of your life story real or a fictional character? In other words, is your very self real or is it an illusion? According to psychologist Bruce Hood, the person at the center of your life isn't really there; it's all neurological smoke and mirrors. Sure, you have the sensation that you have a self, and that sensation is real, but the beliefs and ideas that spring from it are not. Learn all about it in this episode in which you'll hear some new material mixed with a rebroadcast of episode four's interview with the author of The Self Illusion, Bruce Hood.

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