In teaching, I’m always making this crucial distinction: “...cognitive science doesn’t show that the self is an illusion, despite what a few cognitive scientists say. Rather, it indicates that the self is a construction.” — Why I Am Not a Buddhist by Evan Thompson
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a house isn't illusory just because it was constructed.
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"Home" might get at the complexity/entanglement of a self.
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The components of the sense of self exist (in the conventional sense that anything else exists) i.e. the sensory experiences that make up a sense of self are not an illusion. But the idea that they add up to an actual entity is another matter.
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Just so. The crucial point being that "adding up to an actual (separate?) entity" is logically distinct from being real in the sense of causally efficacious.
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I think folks give such caveats because many take the meaning of Illusion as “doesn’t exist” instead of it’s actual meaning “not what it appears to be”.
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