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#181 - The Illusory Self

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Inward Pointing Arrow of Attention

A lot of the experiments are visual. And you can just notice you can't see your face now, but a very simple, direct thing to do, which I think is worth doing is to actually point. Well, I might hear about your view, but I don't experience it in my own experience. Like you say in the episode, matter of experience is just one view. It fades out into nothing. It's not inside anything. How big is it? Well, there isn't a second one to compare it with. And is it inside anything? No, or I say it's in the silence going back in. So these sounds are coming out of the first person language here

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