What Is a Self?

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What is a self? How do human beings come to think of themselves as having selves? I don't know what the hypotheses are in this case. We have to begin by understanding what a self is. Not self is not an immaterial sol or mysterious inner absorber that stands behind the eyes and makes pe so what is it? A self? I think, is just a centre of narrative gravity which he believes. It's not a thing, it's a place. And that place is created where all the various memories and knowledge can be found. That is the seat of intentionality. There's no ghost in the machine. There's just a machine. The primary illusion of a self

David and Tamler find themselves unable to attach rational meaning to a single act in their entire lives. Let’s say we publish more articles and books. What then? What about our kids? They’re going off to college. Why? What for? We think about the future of the podcast. Let’s say we get bought out by Spotify and become more famous than Joe Rogan, Dolly Parton, and even Yoel Inbar -- more famous than all the podcasters in the world. So what?

And we can find absolutely no reply.

Plus, we take a test to determine whether we can we tell an AI apart from an analytic philosopher. When should we start getting scared of what AIs are gonna do to us, or what we’re doing to them?

*Note: the main segment is on the first half of Tolstoy’s great memoir "A Confession," but you don’t need to be familiar with the text to appreciate the discussion for this one.