The Self: a Reality or a Concept? Dr. Tony Nader with Dr. Evan Thompson
Consciousness Is All There Is
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The Existential Question of Self and Non-Self
People are very much attached to the self and the sense of some continuities there. It is kind of mysterious, if you like, if we don't find an ultimate cause for it or an ultimate foundation for that sense of self. Different traditions will say different things about these questions. But I think existentially, indeed, we do have this sense of identity or identification. And then, you know, death is the dissolution of that. This is how I put it in waking, dreaming, being a philosopher: keeping an open question in the face of what is dying and our death.
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