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#264 - Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Being a Self

The self is this third category of thinking about consciousness that people find very confusing. I talk a lot about the self being an illusion very much in a Buddhist sense and of there being an experience of a loss of a sense of self. One doesn't lose all of these selves that you're mentioning, but it's sort of useful to see what is on the table here for jettisoning. Have you ever taken psychedelics? Is that something you've experienced in flow states or in any other state? Yeah, I always thought of it in relation to the fact that the experience of being a self is not one thing.

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