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#282 - Do You Really Have a Self?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Conceptual Imputation in Reality

The realist in me would want to say, well, whatever reality is altogether, you can have a greater or lesser ability to conceive it. And so you can just think of, I even just forget about other species. There's a subset of people on this earth who understand physics. And then there's the rest of us who don't understand it as much as we might. If all the physicists died in their sleep tonight, we would lose something. One could describe that something as a larger picture of the reality in which we're entangled. But by interacting with dogs, we learn that that's one of the dimensions of reality.

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