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Are we hallucinating ourselves? | Anil Seth

Philosophy For Our Times

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Being a Self Is a Part of Experience

An important part of what we experience in the world, as i've said, is the experience of being a self. It's very tempting to think that the self is the thing that is doing the perceiving - but this doesn't really stand up. The self is part of experience. It arises within our experience. And if you look for the self, it's not there. That's what science of consciousness can do.

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