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Self

Colin Wright
Sep 19, 2023
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Self

Colin Wright
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June 20, 2023

Broadly, Western philosophies have typically defined one's "self" (or assumed "self" to be) the guiding force behind one's brain and body. Eastern philosophies, in contrast, have tended to consider the self a sort of emergent property of other processes: something akin to an illusion that we find to be reassuring or useful, as opposed to a real-deal thin…

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