Reshaping The Self | Dan Zahavi, Lisa Bortolotti, Anders Sandberg
Philosophy For Our Times
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Is the Self an Illusion?
i think the self is an illusion, but it's one of those sticky illusions that take it till you make it. Much of the time it makes sense to talk about ourselves as having selves. We need a representation of this body. And then we hume us by an ladling on more and more frontaloe get a more more elaborate model of itself. The oldest concept of self is actually the new system. It tries to identify things which don't fit in with other things that normal exist in the body using a fairly elaborate training system.
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