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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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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If you ever want to talk to a neuropsychologist I’d be glad to email you or talk on Skype. I work with people with brain injuries and it’s really apparent how fragile the sense of self is after someone loses their memory, or experiences something bizarre like alien hand syndrome
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Acquired and traumatic brain injury is the saddest way in which the self can be deconstructed

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