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Re: "self" between the eyes
Author: Darryl Sloan ()
Date: June 25, 2019 07:48PM
drrayeye Wrote:
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> Cognitive neuroscientists got rid of the "self"
> (homunculus) between the eyes more than 50 years
> ago!

But aren't you a Cartesean dualist? (I might be getting you mixed up with someone else on the board.)

Even so, the average person has definitely not done away with the belief in the "self". There would be a lot less egotism in the world if everyone had a deep understanding of the fictional status of the ego.

Darryl

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