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#181 — The Illusory Self

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The World You See With Your Open Eyes

The world you see with your open eyes is the same place where you are thinking and feeling. Evidently, you can actually see that, at least visually. You can see that in just imposing a visual image on to the physical world you're looking at. If you're staring at your table and you imagine a in a very small horse and carriage on it, writing some something there is different than when i say you don't imagine an elephant on it. That superimposition of something shows you thatYour visual mind is, in some basic sense, before your eyes. And just know, yes, the underlying neurology thiss iis all happening in the same place.

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