Sam Harris | #282 - Do You Really Have a Self?
www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/282-do-you-really-have-a-self
What Jamie wrote
Some of the reading about meditation I have done has raised the question of "self". I find it a curious topic. I also use Waking Up as part of my meditation practice and it frequently touches on the topic "self", as well as inferences of free will not existing.
This insightful podcast hits on all of those topics. I certainly have an idea that my mind and my self are different, or that my body and my self are, and that free will and self can be applied to these entities of mind and body. The argument in this podcast is that that is rubbish. There is no self, you are your body and your mind. There is no other.
Of course the obvious question is why does this matter? My read is that if we identify a self independent of our mind and body, we are never truly present in our own being. But this quickly gets into a realm that is way beyond my depth.
I will likely listen to this podcast a couple more times.