054 - The Self - Bruce Hood (rebroadcast)
You Are Not So Smart
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Are You a Pile of Adams?
When you eat vanilla pudding, which is also a pile of atoms, you are really just putting those atoms next to your atoms and waiting for some of them to trade places. Like a cosmic box of Legos, the building blocks of matter can take the shape of every form we know of from mountains to monkeys. And if you think about this long enough, you might stumble into the same odd questions scientists and philosophers ask from time to time. At what point would you cease to be you and almost cease to be Edward James?
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