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EP 178 Anil Seth on A New Science of Consciousness

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You Know, I've Never Had a Fear of Death, Now I'm Gonna Change and Then It's Gonna Stop.

In the book you suggest that self and personal identity may not be identical. Could you disentangle those two a little bit? Yeah, this goes back to when we were talking about the different ways in which we experienced being a self. And while normally they all feel bound together, they can come apart. So yes, there are dissociable aspects of self and the impression that there aren't is one of the illusions of self-deception.

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