Reclaiming The Self – Is Your Sense Of Self An Illusion? [1]

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By Steve Taylor [3] Ph.D

Guest Writer for Wake Up World [4]

If there is one concept which has been under constant attack by psychologists and philosophers over the last few decades, it is the idea of ‘you’ – that you are a real entity or ‘self’. Many modern philosophers and scientists suggest that this sense of being ‘someone’ is illusory, or just a simple product of brain activity. Somehow the billions of neurons in your brain work together to produce it, and all of the thoughts and feelings which it incorporates.