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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 Recognizing the Truth of Emptiness

Sally Kohn: I'm going to make a few claims here which I think you will find unobjectionable. Nothing I've said undermines a kind of robust empirical realism about the world, she says. The very realism that drives us to accept the existence of mountains before there were people is consistent with and in fact forces us to a different kind of unreality,. So when you ask, are you a realist or not? That's not a question you can answer. But any sane person has to be realist in some sense and anti-realist in another.

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