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Key takeaways from Sudden amnesia showed me the self is a convenient fiction

Sudden amnesia let me experience what Buddhists and philosophers have been saying all along about the existence of the self

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Buddha thought there is no true self, that the self is a fiction, a mere name to describe a collection or aggregate of ever-changing components. In one text, he gives an analogy of a chariot – a chariot is made out of parts that are in a sense more real than the chariot itself, which is just a convention, a name we give to a certain assemblage of those parts
David Hume too insisted that he is no more than ‘a bundle or collection of different perceptions
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