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Re:Researchers giving psilocybin to religious leaders (2017) by whatshisface on Friday February 09, 2018 @03:25PM (#16343547)
If the self is an illusion who is being fooled? (Obviously I experience things - scientific research showing that the self is complicated and many-faceted don't really serve to get rid of the idea...)
Re:Researchers giving psilocybin to religious leaders (2017) by dang on Friday February 09, 2018 @03:28PM (#16343569)
The claim is that some sort of universal self gets fooled into thinking that it is a bunch of disjoint individual selves. Whether the word 'self' is best for both concepts, I couldn't say.