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#282 - Do You Really Have a Self?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Dualistic Starting Point of Pure Subjectivity

I think you can get there by taking the dualistic starting point of pure subjectivity seriously. But if you persist in doing that, what you notice is that this feeling of being a self is itself a kind of object, right? It is an appearance of a kind. However inscrutable. Otherwise, you would never sense that it was so, right? And certainly you could never experience a loss of this feeling unless it is in fact a feeling,. So there's some signature in experience that we're calling self. This thing that we're criticizing, this thing we're saying doesn't exist feels like something. If that feeling suddenly went away, then there'd be no basis upon which

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