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#282 - Do You Really Have a Self?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Dependence of Conceptual Imputation

The author says that almost everything we take seriously as a real existent is interdependent in all of these three senses. Things depend for their identities upon the ways in which we understand them, he writes. The human in the treatise of human nature makes the beautiful point that human beings are natural artificers and were born to make things. And I think that the deepest part of our activity as artificers is that one of the things we make is ourselves.

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