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004 - The Self

You Are Not So Smart

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The Human Brain Edits That Out

In the book you talk about looking at looking at mirror and moving your eyes from side to side. But if you look at another person and ask them to do the same thing, you will be able to see the motion. So you should ask yourself, why is my brain editing that out? Exactly. I mean, you basically get them to focus on their left eye, then focus on the right eye, and they move backwards and forwards. And it's not something people really immediately, when they see it, then they think something's very spooky. It's all an illusion. There's someone feeding in stuff in the back. We don't actually have a duplicating machine. As

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