"The concept of a "self" is bs." (Neurologists and Eastern philosophists)

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Another approach to this realization is to think about "my life" vs. "life".

None of us "has" a life. Full stop. Nobody possesses anything that can be called "a life". Instead, we spend some period of time in touch with this same stuff that all of our neighbors plus we comprise. We are witnesses and contributors to Life itself, and none of us exists except as a portion of that whole. We all nudge it this way and that, but while we come and go, the process continues. The process is the cool part.

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Who is doing my alleged thinking? Who is controlling my alleged body if not me?

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Larry from Newhart. Except the Darryls take turns filling in for him when he has to manage the financial affairs at the Minuteman Cafe. Most of that involves endorsing settlement checks.

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'concept of self' does not have to deny the 'concept of us'

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I don't get your point in context to this quote. So elaborate.