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Storytelling with Jason Silva and Tim Urban (Wait But Why)

Brains

CHAPTER

Are You Keeping Your Identity Small?

Timothy Stanley: We have a hard time distinguishing our r a, our identity, from the ideas we believe. There's research specifically about parts of the brain that light up when we think about our identity. And in other words, like our identity, we mix up with our body,. So you say, hat you know, our beliefs, when someone challenges them, it feels like someone running at us with a speari right away. It's an al thing about what is a virus? Viruses aren't alive. They're not calculating what they do.

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