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What’s your favorite interesting fact? (lemm.ee)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/autism
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@[email protected] was talking about tornadoes and it was really interesting, figured I’d see what other cool things we all know

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My takeaway is not that instead of a single person we're actually two but rather that self as we think about it doesn't actually exist. It's convenient for our lives to think about ourselves that way but I bet if you could actually understand the inner workings of brain and how matter gives rise to subjective experience you'd discover that there actually is no one in control. The only thing that makes us separate from the rest of the universe is that it feels like something to exist.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

This book digs deeper into that sort of stuff:

The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity https://a.co/d/fZhHVrG

Worth a read