The illusion of the ‘self’
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Hey, it's Sean. We're rerunning one of my favorite conversations today with the neuroscientist Gregory Burns. It felt like a good moment to bring this one back. We're living through a period of real Uncertainty, lots of things feel influx, and this episode gets at a question that sits underneath so much of our anxiety.
What exactly is this thing we call The self. Burns makes a compelling case that identity isn't fixed or settled, that it's more like a story. We're always telling and retelling about who we are. And if that's true. Then maybe we're not quite as stuck as we think we are.
Anyway, hope you dig it. See you next episode. What makes you You. And what makes me
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