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Episode 242: Losing My Religion

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What Is a Self?

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

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