#282 — Do You Really Have a Self?

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

Samharris, Currentevents, Politics, Ethics, Religion, Neuroscience, Science, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 • 29.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Jay Garfield about the illusion of the self. They discuss the default sense of subjectivity, the difference between absolute and conventional truth, interdependence, free will, subject-object duality, emptiness, the “mind-only” school of Buddhism, scientific realism and experiential anti-realism, and other topics.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast.
0:09.1	This is Sam Harris.
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0:40.4	Okay, well, sorry for the long hiatus here, but I finally caught COVID, or it caught me.
0:56.8	There's not much to report about my actual experience.
1:00.2	It was not especially terrible, given the possibilities, but it was also not just a cold,
1:06.5	either.
1:08.0	I was left feeling quite grateful to have been vaccinated and boosted and to have had
1:16.3	Paxlovid available to me.
1:18.7	I'm not sure what it did, apart from producing truly galling taste in my mouth.
1:25.3	But I just don't know what the counterfactual was.
1:28.6	I don't know how I would have done if I hadn't taken it.
1:31.6	Anyway, it was not a lot of fun, but it was also manageable.
1:35.5	So happy to be back, and to give you today's podcast.
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