Catching Sight of Our Self | Iain McGilchrist, Betty Sue Flowers, Anil Ananthaswamy, and Bence Nanay
Philosophy For Our Times
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Are We Getting Closer to Understanding Self Knowledge?
I think that the general congruent science of cognitive science will definitely help us understand a lot of things. I'm very optimistic about some kind of, you know, interpersonal and some kind of understanding of how the mind works. But it doesn't mean that we should be all in on self knowledge. We have constructing airtight stories about ourselves. And again there's other ways which can relate to ourselves is a very obvious perceptual way of relating to ourself. The decisions that we're making are creating what what the self is going to be - this is really crucial thing.
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