The Self Illusion Hood Bruce
The Self Illusion Hood Bruce Most of us believe that we are unique and coherent individuals, but are we? Those who embrace the self as an individual in the West, or a member of the group in the East,…
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The Self Illusion Hood Bruce
Most of us believe that we are unique and coherent individuals, but are we? Those who embrace the self as an individual in the West, or a member of the group in the East, feel fulfilled and purposeful. The idea of a "self" has existed ever since humans began to live in groups and become sociable.
Reality as we perceive it is not something that objectively exists, but something that our brains construct from moment to moment, interpreting, summarizing, and substituting information along the way. This experience seems incredibly real but a wealth of recent scientific evidence reveals that this notion of the independent, coherent self is an illusion - it is not what it seems. Like a science fiction movie, we are living in a matrix that is our mind.
In The Self Illusion, Dr. Bruce Hood reveals how the self emerges during childhood and how the architecture of the developing brain enables us