Ryan Holiday
The Dr. Drew Podcast
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The Stoics' Struggle With the Command Center
The body is kind of the lower self and the mind is the higher self, Seneca said. The Descartes error was that we are an embedded brain; we're embedded in the body. We aren't really two systems. Separating them is a little bit problematic, but not completely because you do have this system above that can control things.
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