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#282 - Do You Really Have a Self?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Illusion of Freedom

The idea of the will simply is completely inert in psychological theory. The real locus classic is for that, of course, in the Western tradition was St. Augustine who basically invented the idea of free will. And so that's an important cautionary right there. Now, when we start looking at the properties that you correctly assigned to the illusory self, things like primordial independence, free agency, pure subjectivity, unity, simplicity, all of those are properties of the illusion.

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