The "Self" Is An Illusion | Thomas Metzinger | Escaped Sapiens #72
The Escaped Sapiens Podcast
Self as Useful Fiction
- The sense of self, like the perception of color, is a useful fiction.
- Colors are misrepresentations of wavelength mixtures, computationally simplified by the brain for contrast.
- These misrepresentations, including the self, are functionally adequate for survival and gene propagation.
- The 'self' is a construct that doesn't reflect an objective reality but contributes to survival.
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