Consciousness and the self

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"Buddhists, cognitive scientists, and philosophers have all made persuasive arguments that there is nothing like a 'fixed self', no thinker behind our thoughts, no doer behind our deeds. There is only consciousness and immediate experience; everything else is the result of the mind projecting into the past or the future."

Sean Illing, Vox

source: https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/2/19/16739386/ayahuasca-retreat-psychedelic-hallucination-meditation