
#181 - The Illusory Self
Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content
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The Man With No Head
I grew up in a mini community where seeing who you are as we call it was normal. All my friends were headless. So people who have heard me speak about Douglas will know that it's been in the context of his really his central empirical injunction, which is to look for your head and notice that you fail to find it. I would argue it has at least one pitfall which will get into. And it touches this point you made about there being no hierarchy and no way of doing it wrong or no way of, you know, once you've seen it,you've seen it. But before we get there, let's just talk about Douglas, the man for a moment
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