Episode 165: Life With No Head (With Sam Harris)
Very Bad Wizards
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The Illusion of the Self
There's no you beyond the contents of your consciousness that's it that's all there is and when your eyes are open and you are observing the world in addition to sounds and sensations and feelings you're also seeing the world. That's how you understand what the self is or a non-elusory self is it is just identical to everything that we're experiencing consciouslyYeah I mean I would with a couple of caveats and that one is that there are uses of the term self to which I don't object at all, I'm not prejudging any of the metaphysical questions about Consciousness.
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