The Self is an Illusion - You Do Not Exist

Sam Harris, Susan Blackmore, Thomas Metzinger and Shunyamurti talks about the illusion of a separate self or ego.
Excerpts:
"I’m not making any spooky claims about its metaphysics. What I am saying, however, is that the self is an illusion. The sense of being an ego, an I, a thinker of thoughts in addition to the thoughts. An experiencer in addition to the experience. The sense that we all have of riding around inside our heads as a kind of a passenger in the vehicle of the body. [...] Now that sense of being a subject, a locus of consciousness inside the head is an illusion. It makes no neuro-anatomical sense. There’s no place in the brain for your ego to be hiding. We know that everything you experience - your conscious emotions and thoughts and moods and the impulses that initiate behavior - all of these things are delivered by a myriad of different processes in the brain that are spread out over the whole of the brain. They can be independently erupted. We have a changing system. We are a process and there’s not one unitary self that’s carried through from one moment to the next unchanging."
- Sam Harris
"We may give up cartesian dualism, we might be absolutely sure that there isn't mind stuff and physical stuff, or matter and consciousness, you know, we say we are monists, but actually, we still believe in a kind of experiencing self. The experiencer and the experience. This doesn't fit with how we know the brain works at all."
- Susan Blackmore
"The self is not a thing, but a process. It is a very interesting and fascinating process; it is that special process that gives you the conscious experience of being someone."
- Thomas Metzinger
"You do not exist. Sorry. Despite all the plans you have made, and all the nice clothes you bought, and all of that. You don't exist. It was all for nothing."
- Shunyamurti
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★ Sam Harris
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★ Susan Blackmore
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★ Thomas Metzinger
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★ Shunyamurti
Excerpts are from Sat Yoga Institute's Ego Death and Divine Rebirth retreat, recorded on the evening of Sunday, April 1, 2012:
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★★★ Quotes
“For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe any thing but the perception."
- David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature
"Is the truth depressing? Some may find it so. But I find it liberating, and consoling. When I believed that my existence was a further fact, I seemed imprisoned in myself. My life seemed like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every year, and at the end of which there was darkness. When I changed my view, the walls of my glass tunnel disappeared. I now live in the open air."
- Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons
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[@methods3110]

What is really bizarre is that we can be sitting in front of our computer realizing we are an illusion.

[@abrahamabraham9942]

😂

[@ssavior8411]

It's not bizzare and seeing it in that way kinda shows that you haven't gotten the clear point of what it means that self is an illusion, Approaching this fact only stems from training your attention to perceive yourself in a different way than how you used to be, yourself is still there but you're just fundamentally aware of its true nature that the thing you think you are and represents "you" is just bunch of thoughts that exist in your brain and color your aware experience to believe that you're a rigid existing entity. There is nothing bizzare about this, it's not saying that you don't exist and somehow you can watch this video. No it's simply about experiencing yourself in how truly it is.

[@josephdillon9698]

There’s a certain part of you that’s pure oblivion maybe you experience it during sleep but to say you don’t exist is only half the story. People say the half that’s less normal to sound smart.

[@TristinKing]

Congratulations on creating a powerful and haunting clip. This clip gets right in to my soul and I literally listen to this a couple of times a day.

[@PersuasiveEuthanasia]

You have no soul.

[@stevie68a]

The piano could not be more annoying.

[@mementomori5374]

Mark Hollingsworth 🤣🤣🤣

[@Carlo-qj5jl]

😂

[@joseandrada264]

😂 The piano does exist

[@embemw1]

Really wish background music could be left out!

[@dawnbastan2208]

Yea seriously

[@Coffeeisnecessarynowpepper]

Do you still wish

[@josephmitchell6796]

@@Coffeeisnecessarynowpepper i do! Lol

[@shaunaestes579]

if this ain't trippin y'all out idk what will 😂😂

[@rezfgjj9194]

savage as fuck 😂😂

[@zes3813]

no such thing as tripx or makex about it, doens't matter, feel, think any nmw

[@blaze-world420]

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[@fraser175]

Forgetting that this didnt trip you all out.

[@jaimitoelpoderoso]

This is so contradicting. call it, illusion of self, call it a simulation universe, call it life, call it what you please. i still gotta pay taxes, and if i stomp my toe, it will still phawkin’ hurt. Life is only a windows for all those who have gray matter amongst the space time continuum. Perspective is everything! ✍🏼

[@satanscrow8016]

There is one constant they always overlook, when they claim that they can see nothing enduring in the idea of the self. There is one thing that never changes, no matter our growth from child to adult: awareness itself.

[@bike4aday]

To go from personal self to awareness self is a big step whereby people think they're done and suffering is reduced by an incredible amount and it's further than most will go, but it's still a false summit. The next stage of insight is done through cessation which reveals even awareness is impermanent. At that point everything syncs up into one perfect infinite loop. That's the end.

[@eyeeye7356]

awareness is also just an appearance of nothing. It comes in the package with the body. There is only nothing, and it's not even a 'constant' because it's timeless.

[@satanscrow8016]

@@eyeeye7356 What comes in the package with the body? Consciousness or nothing? The former is a thing, the latter is not so your comments amount to saying nothing.

[@satanscrow8016]

@@eyeeye7356 And note how you used nothing to formulate and post your words. I guess the body did all of that by itself...

[@leocarbaugh5074]

I understand where you're coming from but I would suggest that may be a very subtle illusion. What it sounds like you're saying is that there's sights, sounds, feelings, emotion and thought and then there's awareness apart from these things. But let's look closer, is there really awareness apart from all these perceptions? When you go to deep sleep or anesthesia, all these perceptions cease to exist all together, as does awareness. If you look close you can notice that everything you're aware of IS awareness itself, there is no awareness apart from what you're aware of. A good anaology for this, let's compare awareness to a whirlpool, and water to everything you're aware of. You go to a spot on a river and see a whirlpool, you come back the next day and it's still there, but what happens when you take away the water? The whirlpool vanishes. There is no thing called whirlpool that exists apart from the water. The whirlpool was never a real thing to begin with because the water flowing through it was constantly different. It is EXACTLY the same for awareness. There's a buddhist concept called co-dependent origination which points to this.

[@madalynvenable6433]

I'm having an existential crisis

[@mementomori5374]

Impossible you dont exist im sorry

[@samritikulla6249]

😁😁

[@foreveryactionthereisacons1683]

@@mementomori5374 Hahaha 😀🙃

[@mementomori5374]

@@foreveryactionthereisacons1683 😁🍺

[@Noct343]

We exist and dont exist at the same time. Relax and enjoy the ride.

[@hermansohier7643]

Conciousness is always of something,awareness doesn't need conciousness but conciousness needs awareness.But this is also just another concept like everything else .

[@eyeeye7356]

yes, it's all nothing... not even awareness or consciousness.

[@jnighs8380]

A concept has the absence of nothing with something, this is nothing.

[@patrickbertlein4626]

This is true, but you will still be "trapped" in the illusion of a separate self, that is simply a human experience. There is no escaping this because there is nothing to escape.

[@tanjohnny6511]

There are people who are not trapped and they are meditators who turn inward and aware of going ons in our minds and body.those who realised it to the max are elightened beings and they are not interested in material gains or status or having family.🙂

[@mementomori5374]

Tan Johnny lol they all dont exist 😂

[@tanjohnny6511]

@@mementomori5374 yes.conciousness exist and unenlightened beings goes round in circles of life depending on their karma.unless you realised it in your mind not intellectually.you still goes round in rebirth.thats why those intellectuals still have anger wheras enlightened buddhas dont get angry.😄

[@elbert3987]

How it is possible that we are looking at this right now maybe you are me again

[@williamburts5495]

I just see self as your being conscious, your experience of being conscious is your experience alone and not anybody's else's and that is what makes you an individual self. You can't say the self is an illusion anymore then you could say your being conscious is an illusion.

[@jnighs8380]

There are no seperate selves try to sperate your self from the universe you cant bc you are not seperate from it. The ego is an illusion. Self and other are an illusion reality is non dual.

[@jnighs8380]

The self is a construct of your ego [another construct ]

[@jnighs8380]

If a self and and other can only co arise are they really seperate.? If you can only arise with an environment are you really seperate from that environment even though you rose from it

[@williamburts5495]

@@jnighs8380 Hmm, this would make materialism true, but to me the reason materialism will always be a perception is because there will always be an explanatory gap problem due to our subjective or inner reality not being able to be observed by us as if it were some material object that has physical properties so it is inconceivable how such a reality can be observed by examining the brain and that is why there is the hard problem of consciousness. It is the subjective self that is aware of the senses being outlets that allow us to perceive the objective world. Our senses being material can only provide us experience of material phenomena that has attributes of form, taste, smell, sound, and physical texture, but since consciousness being awareness is devoid of physical attributes our awareness which is the subjective self will always be inaccessible for our senses to perceive. And since consciousness cannot observe consciousness there will always be an explanatory gap problem that will always make consciousness and it's origins not observable by any material means. So materialism can never be a realized truth but rather a perception or belief.

[@ssavior8411]

Do experiences affect consciousness? I don't think so Experiences are just bunch of thoughts aswell that are stored in your brain and that can be observed and experienced by your consciousness. There is nothing unique about how your experiences can help forming your individual self because simply by definition they don't, consciousness always stays consent, it only observes and everything else is relative. Every human being operate on the same concept - as it seems- that is consciousness, we're all the same by this logic otherwise what makes consciousness of each individual unique and differentiate them from the rest? It seems like there isn't a clear answer to this..

[@draymunoz]

"I" do not think therefore "I" do not exist

[@ChichiMarie]

11,999,999 views he's referring to the famous "I think, therefore I am" quote. Quite funny actually.

[@zoorrken]

xD

[@kawika2974]

Well, "I think, therefore I am" has been an accepted proof for ages. While it presupposes what it's supposed to prove, it demonstrates that people assuming they don't exist are presupposing they don't (actually, they're presuposing they do exist in order to make the claim). If people don't presuppose that proof is possible, they can't prove anything, let alone that they don't exist.

[@garmind4868]

draymunoz I think therefore I am hallucinating

[@garmind4868]

Kawika to be or not to be is not the question it's the answer

[@NewSchoolPOKERstrat]

About 100% of the comments here come from people who don’t understand this at all. And that’s ok. It’s right where you are. You are listening to people using language to show you what language can’t show you. And you use your words to say it’s not true. People, language is exactly the problem. It’s a tool but a clunky tool. You’ve been taken in by it. My name is Donovan. I can say that I exist or I can say Donovan exists. But “Donovan exists” is far more accurate. I exist, sure. And Donovan exists, true. But I am not Donovan if I am Donovan’s mind. And Donovan can’t have a mind AND BE a mind. So which is it? I ask you too then,.. Do you have a mind? Yes? Who does? You? Are you a mind? Yes? So you have a you? Are you subject or object? Thinking that the language based way believing and feeling w regard to a self is exactly like the pencil drawing of two hands, one drawing the other and the other drawing the one. That drawing by Escher?,.. I think that his name. That’s you and your self. Is that possible? If you dig a little bit you’ll see that’s pretty much how you feel about it. But that’s like trying to chew your teeth or swallow your stomach It’s an illusion Like time Only more persistent

[@AgrippaPetronius1903]

Navonod on NLH (New School Poker) .....fascinated by your comments, and your poker school also......amazing the people who manifest in this collective dream

[@sasufreqchann]

Words cannot describe that which is not. Lol .Peace Out

[@sasufreqchann]

Rumi is funny xD .

[@sasufreqchann]

how i paint : without doing anything. I Just allow . And it flows naturally . Like my writing here . I Wonder how it came to be like this in the world,. All illnes comes from pushing against the stream.

[@sasufreqchann]

Also i feel like writing defeats the Point xD . So farewell my fellow soy beans.

[@exstazius]

There is only awareness , nothing more

[@beehappy7797]

But that's hell of a lot.

[@alalohwhydee]

A leaf is as much a part of the tree as the complete identity of the tree is the sum total of the leaves, bark, branches, sap, roots, etc. Maybe it's not that we are or aren't an individual self but instead the collective outworking of collective reality expressed through the almost intangible idea that we are so unique and yet seemingly diversely isolated and independent in contrast to the fact that we are individual parts of the one collective. For us, we are so real, but seemingly only to ourselves. To the tree reality is so real to the entirity of itself that to dwell exclusively in and of itself even as each leaf falls to the ground is confusing the reality of life in the diversity of the expression of itself.

[@iamthatiam5160]

the Self and my self is very different the Self is god and my self is ego. Self is the reality. My self is an illusion

[@afiqalbawah4039]

in sufism, The Self is God, annihilate yourself to unite with The Self...

[@nikhilamga5631]

Is not the Real Self too an illusion?

[@apincyahoocom]

I am - The Cosmos experiencing it self .. * Blessings *

[@WORMGITTER]

self just took a nap...

[@williamburts5495]

An illusion is something that affects you ( self ) so there must be a difference between the self that is affected by the illusion and the illusion that affects it, to say they are one and the same would make the illusion unrealizable because an illusion can't affect an illusion. So to say the self is an illusion just leads to a conundrum.

[@bblleeppbblloopp]

why can an illusion not affect an illusion?

[@williamburts5495]

@@bblleeppbblloopp o asked, " why can't an illusion not affect an illusion "? Answer: Because such a thing would be incomprehensible.

[@bblleeppbblloopp]

@@williamburts5495 ahahaha. plenty of things that are incomprehensible are still true. imagine infinity right now in your brain, an infinite number of pigs or something.. your brain cant comprehend it but still infinity exists.

[@williamburts5495]

@@bblleeppbblloopp An illusion is something that affects the mind but it is the conscious self understanding and knowing that the mind has become compromised makes it underlie the mind thus it is more subtle than both the mind and the illusion, but since an illusion can't be more subtle than an illusion an illusion can't underlie an illusion thus an illusion can't affect an illusion. You said, " plenty of things that are incomprehensible are still true " I don't see how, a truth is something realized to be true, an illusion affecting an illusion can't be realized. infinity may exist but it is not incomprehensible which is why we call it " infinity "

[@bblleeppbblloopp]

@@williamburts5495 the word infinity isnt a comprehension of infinity, its literally just the word infinity. why is an illusion something that affects the mind? based on the definition, "a thing that is or is likely to be wrongly perceived or interpreted by the senses." every single thing is an illusion because there is no "right" way to perceive or interpret the senses, every single person does it differently. even your own mind is an illusion as it is constantly changing and therefore so if your perception of it, so that right there is an illusion affecting an illusion!

[@winstonchang777]

It is only after we have experienced the "Pain of Self" that we even try to "transcend" beyond the self. Even though I can tell my cat that there is no cat self, I also know that there force out there that "squeezes" you or the cat into being a self. We only study the self in the attempt to free ourselves from it. Even many "me" is a self. Self or no self cannot be solely explained by physics. We assume our consciousness equates the physical brain and its changes.....But it is more than that. The more you know about your own "parts" the more you do not have a self. Who asked " that question" ? Who said, "This is here ; that was the past , this WAS NOW" I know, we all like to be free ....but we are not....

[@jonathantomich9178]

I became self aware before I was born I am not alone

[@mufasrakhalid1066]

WE LIVE IN A ILUSION AND YOU ALSO LIVE IN ILUSION.

[@angelsndaisies6188]

This is what happens at the beginning of a spiritual awakening. It's for beginners, it's what they think. What happens is you realize this but the truth is it's the ego persona that you thought was you but when you wake up and realize it's not real, you think that YOU aren't real. It's because you identified too much as your ego. Especially if you continue to believe it for year and years. I remember like 20 years ago believing this but it is false. I felt like everyone was me at one point.. that is beginner stuff. Sorry to say, but it is. It's Solipsism. Most come to realize that it's the persona and that the real self IS a unique individual soul but we are "connected" to each other through creator.

[@ChichiMarie]

Chela Morya thank you for this. Exactly how I feel

[@bluebird1741]

Chela Morya. You have miss understood the video. It is not on about solipsism. Solipsism is a belief that only you exist and nobody else does.. this is not what the video is saying. Its saying we all exist physically but as one consciousness and that is not solipsism.

[@sasufreqchann]

I didnt even watch the Video xD

[@inri2381]

Even if the "self" wouldn't exist, why does this mean that the brain doesn't deside for it self between different tendencies? This clearly makes no sense

[@HunterSalazar]

Death does not exist. That which seemingly divides us is death, and even that division is illusory. I have just posted a video of this topic on my channel.

[@GQGeorge]

Fantastic video. Brought “me” to tears.

[@maurosaya29]

No pun intended, I guess...

[@andruss2001]

Thanks for sharing your views! I personally believe that we really do not exist at the present. We exist in this dream, illusion, where we are characters. And that is(or was) happening in the past. That is how I view things. But you know what? Have you ever experienced understanding that you were seeing a dream, while you were being a character in that dream? At least once that happened to me. So who was I at that moment? A character, playing a role in that dream, or rather the real me, sleeping? I feel sorry for the people who live in the dream only, having no roots beyond that dream. Children of lie.

[@businesslady7840]

Other words you are not your body you are not your physical self. You are a spiritual being that is creating your own human experience in which you are having. Example: I am not Keisha it is just my earthly name. The sun isn't really the sun it is a name we earthly beings has given it. Your parents aren't really your parents they are called parents because it is the name we humans choose to call them. All this stuff is an illusion. That is why your thoughts creates your illusion.

[@theotormon]

Anybody else feel like this massive self - is it real or is it illusion? - debate we've been having is hopelessly vague and fuzzy? I don't see that there is even a shared concept of what the term self means. I have consumed innumerable books, videos, and blogs on the topic and am still no closer to understanding what the self even is supposed to be. No amount of meditation has revealed either its presence or its absence, because it is basically a meaningless term. So when people say it is real or it is an illusion, either way I am like, what are you even talking about? What illusion of what self?

[@kashourikatsu2543]

Have u read a book called "the bicameral mind" by Julian Jaynes? He says consousnes was invented and "I" and "me" are only metaphors to explain the self but only metaphors nothing real

[@cshan159]

If you were walking past a homeless person and gave them $100 and you thought to yourself or liked to think of yourself as a generous or giving person but you then turn the corner and someone says to you” you’re a piece of shit you should have given that person more” or you later on overhear someone saying they think the opposite of you, now which is true? - are you still “you” either way? Are you your job? Or your car? Or your house? Or your meals you eat? Take away everything and you’re still you.. the illusion is we make up roles and labels and slap them ourselves and other people but strip it all down and we are all still here as our true selves. Pure awareness and consciousness. We get caught up in who we think we are

[@capg7275]

Life is great. But like we all know, we're afraid of what we don't understand. We don't understand death or the "afterlife" therefore we are afraid and confused about it. I am. But death is inevitable... unfortunately we will all one day die. The human race. Planet earth. It's scary...but I do believe life is an illusion. Just enjoy life and DON'T work your self to death. Please just live life. Enjoy it with someone. You will only live once. Leave a mark on this universe

[@termikesmike]

If you're just an illusion you can't die, Ha Ha .... you're stuck in this delusion forever , no escape, but maybe some other illusionary 'selfie' can show the way out ? Maybe the One in my dreams who speaks to me at times ... "only live once " you say ?

[@georgebenichou9727]

the person so called is a construction of the mind !!! by believing into it ( the ego ;the impression of being an entity ) you give to it a reality ! then you continue to develop your conception of a " me " !! you give it a name to make it more real ! then you confirm as such ! then this created conception ( by yourself ) will fade away you will say he is dead ! but who is dead really ? it is only the death not of you but of your conception of a " me " a kind of illusion ; you :you are not this imagined conception of your mind ?? you are something that never change you are the consciousness !! your so called " me " is something constantly changing and therefore does not deserve to be called a " me " !! in fact you can say a function a process it is not permanent even one minute then call it an illusion as an entity but there is the observer that does not change as such it is consciousness the real you ! this consciousness is the same for everybody !!! think and try to understand further .......

[@healapparel8968]

Thank you bro

[@beehappy7797]

@Cap G We are creating our fear in our heads. But we are not the body and thoughts, only consciousness. Meditation gets us in touch with the consciousness. I do not fear death anymore cause consciousness is eternal. Sadhguru is my guru Look up: www.ishafoundation.org (a nonprofit organization).

[@chadwilliams9141]

@@beehappy7797 conciousness is present as long as the system is operational when you turn off do you know your in nothingness? Do you see just darkness? In all likely hood you end and you dont remember it you simply just fade away.

[@sngscratcher]

Who is it perceiving that which does not exist?

[@mamunurrashid5652]

There is no 'central' "who" that is perceiving that which doesn't not exist!! The 'who' is always changing and the idea that there is a central or unitery self(who) is an illusion(because the who is always changing)!

[@monkeyvizion]

The who, is the essential self, pure awareness. that which has always been and all that will ever be, we are all part of it, we are all it. There are many labels you can put on it, many concepts to try and cognise it, but rationality can never hold it, as it's our transcendent essence. Ponder for a moment infinity, and try to honestly touch it with your rationality.

[@sasufreqchann]

You cannot Look at yourself without a mirror. And then you percive something which can never be you . Its Just an Image . But no matter how the people debate. Why does it matter to actually percive the infamous ,,i,, thing. Isn't i something like a point A or B for example ? .

[@ernestweber5207]

Nobody, of course. That is actually obvious.

[@stevenajao2369]

The “who” is also just a thought in the mind

[@palmamingozzi5736]

I exist, I am here, I can, I do, I am

[@immortalcoils93]

Even though I disagree, allowing yourself to believe this will help you do anything you'd like to do. Trust me. When you believe this as a person who feels distressed and hopelessly lost, you will let go of that and deal with struggle and trauma with a new outlook and passion. Enjoy this journey... whatever it is. Everyone will die. Why try to bring it forth faster?

[@miguelpereira9859]

EXACTLY that is the point of this thought exercise

[@williamburts3114]

No illusion could be known to exist without a knower ( self ) to know its existence so there is a duality there, and a duality represents difference. Being such, the knower ( self ) cannot be an illusion and the illusion cannot be the knower ( self )

[@leocarbaugh5074]

It's important to be very clear about what is this self that doesn't exist because in a sense there is a self that exists but not the one most people feel themselves to be. So there is a self in the sense that this body/mind is not that body/mind BUT there is not a self in the sense of a self apart from thought, perception, and body. There is not a self that can transcend mind and get control over itself. If you feel like there's a you in the skull who can alter thoughts, THAT is an illusion. If you don't believe me then just look, try to gain control over mind, what happens? A thought pops up claiming to be able to control another thought. So which one are you? The controller thought? Or that which is controlled? You see that? The idea of a self in here is actually a form of splitting. It's an arbitrary distinction in which you say, these thought's are me and the other ones are not. Either there is no me at all, or it's ALL me, both point to the same thing.

[@hastious]

😂😂😂😂 The music doesn't make sense either

[@willstevens5059]

The music doesnt exist

[@angelfirelite]

@@willstevens5059 ......Lmao!

[@SenEmChannel]

Music is illusion in your brains.

[@TheGoat2367]

@@SenEmChannel brains do not exist either Lmao

[@SenEmChannel]

@@TheGoat2367 yeah. You right. Brain exits when someone give it that label. Brain itself dont have label. Human see brain like that, because with eyes human will see brain exits like that. With a different eye like Alien eyes, they will se brain totally different. Brain exits because 5 sense of human feel it exits

[@darkglitcher4619]

You can only know the truth about oneself. We don't not know everything and there is no such a thing as complete wisdom. You do exist and will on so many levels. You are part of the big cosmic puzzle without your energy this world would not exist and many other things.

[@jlmadd]

You know nothing

[@ConsciousRobot]

Its difficult to imagine how a process as intricate and profound as consciousness could have arisen naturally

[@iordanneDiogeneslucas]

it's even harder to imagine it not

[@XOXO-mb2vh]

I'm real until I'm dead.Don't let other people deny your self. The ones who cannot see themselves are emotionally blind . It takes one to know one literally.

[@jamesstevenson7725]

This has it's origins in Buddhist philosophy

[@joeali2775]

Finally who's going to know that the self is an illusion?

[@teresaparker6726]

Joe Ali The ONE Consciousness knows.

[@deejannemeiurffnicht1791]

They convince you to hate each other, target each as 'other',then convince you don;t exist. Meanwhile feed them with likes, follows, subscriptions, and emotes thereby telling them how to hack us ever more.

[@jkd6969]

Who is they? When awareness is conscious ….all in all

[@ilovesesshomarusama716]

Well I believe in my individuality. I believe that in my truest form I'm simply aware but not self aware, but as a person in this reality and lifetime, self exist through my perceptions and the perceptions of others. And it's always changing. And if I should live again I won't be the same self I am now. I will always change myself. However I am also everyone and everything. I'm simply experiencing life through my eyes and my genetic makeup.

[@jonah_hosea]

This text is an illusion. You don't see it. But if it's not, leave a lie.

[@jonah_hosea]

People get paid for this babble!!!!

[@jkd6969]

Thank you for this amazing video…. At a loss for words.

[@wittykittywoes]

God loves you!

[@sumantranray5644]

Hi, Interesting Work. This video is short, and does not label who is saying what . Can you kindly graciously : a. upload more videos on Cognition, Consciousness, & Spirituality (e.g. Paths to Enlightenment, (Nibbana)) ; b. Videos on Phenomenology (Husserl, Dennett), Buddhist studies on Mind (Varela, Thompson)

[@terrysarjoo4642]

God is everything. Perception is reality. Live in wonders. Live in miracles.

[@SuperleggeraV4]

No one really pays me any attention unless I reach out to them and I feel like I don't exist. My mom is with me but I need another person besides her sometime. 😮‍💨

[@exstazius]

It is so evident. There is only one reality ( the present moment ). In this moment I dont exist. There is only a body, feelings, forms and thinking. The I ( mark with his education and past) is just a thought. There is no difference in reality between me and a flower.

[@aprilthomas1489]

I'm not completely closed off to new ideas, and I am very invested into a scientific worldview and I am also interested in philosophical ideas. Sam Harris and some other people who I have a lot of respect for intellectually have this idea that there is no self, and that existence is an illusion. As of right now I am completely unconvinced mainly because I've never really heard a good argument for it. Also it just seems kind of fantastical. They keep saying there is no you there is no self all that we see is an illusion, but where is this coming from besides a feeling? I have been practicing meditation a little bit and I have tapped into that sensation that I am a passive Observer. But it appears to me that this is only a sensation. An altered state of consciousness. Incredibly relaxing and peaceful to feel that way, but as far as I can tell the reality is that I am me and the things going on around me are actually happening. They ask you this question, who is "I"? Like it is some kind of unanswerable trump card. And hey maybe im missing something but i dont see why the answer has to be any more profound than, I am an animal made up of chemicals and cells, that work via natural processes to keep me alive as long as no major part of the system fails. My mind is simply a part of the process. It is cells, chemicals, and energy that produce an emergent property that the animal that is me experiences as consciousness. The consciousness itself is a tool that the kind of animal that i am has honed to its current state of functionality. No, consciousness is not necessary for life, but neither is a tail. Life branches out in whatever way it can, and in the case of humans it made a conscious mind. While we dont know all the reasons, we can continue to study and learn. But as far as we can tell within the study of the natural world, the body, brain included, is simply a mish mosh of chemical processes. So what part of this body, and the emergent mind from within it isn't real? And how can i know that that is really truth and not just a fancy thought game? Also, if all of this is, indeed and illusion, for whom or what is the illusion for? What is hallucinating? And what is the reality beyond the illusion?

[@exploringphenospace3034]

The claim is not that the body is an illusion, or that thoughts are illusions, or that experiences are illusions. But most people, even scientifically minded people, have a sense that we have something like a soul. We might call it mind instead of soul and think that we are out of the woods, but the idea is still unscientific. Even if you believe the mind dies when the body dies, there is still the idea that something soul-like is hiding in the brain. No such thing has ever been found in the brain. No "me" that is different than the electrochemical process happening in the brain. No experiencer in addition to the experiences. No thinker in addition to the thoughts. Experiences simply happen. Thoughts simply happen. It's very hard to explain exactly what's wrong about the idea or feeling that there is a "me" in there. Again, experiences and thought are clearly real. Can't we just call all of that "me" and be satisfied. We can. But if we do, we should realize that there is something missing. And that missing piece actually matters when we are trying to understand the metaphysics of our situation, and it has consequences for moral philosophy. Try to visualize all the experiences, feelings and thoughts produced by your brain as a more or less continuous stream. The stream is only interrupted during sleep or anesthesia. This stream is you. There is no little being riding on that stream. No experiencer in the middle of the stream. No thinker directing the stream. It's just the stream. Ask yourself this: What is it that makes the experiences produced by your brain yesterday and the experiences produced by your brain today belong to the same person? Think back to some experience you had yesterday. In what sense was it YOU and no one else who experienced that? Obviously the experience happened in the same brain, and the memory of that experience can be accessed by you now. But try to prove that you are not simply a new being who just happen to have access to yesterday's being's memories. It's not easy to prove. We clearly feel that those memories are ours, and that it happened to us. But that sense can disappear, so it seems to be just that: Another experience. You can learn to make the experience disappear, so that you no longer identify with your memories and your previous experiences. In fact, you no longer identify with anything. This experience is just as consistent with what we observe as the normal experience of being a little "me" who are separate from all those other thoughts and experiences. You can learn to feel like a biological system who is producing thoughts, without feeling like an agent than can reach into the mechanics of the system and affect it's operation. You can feel like a collection of feelings, without being something extra, something separate form those feelings that are in some sense consuming them. And this view seems to be in closer register with how we think the brain works. When this alternate view is taken seriously, your future stream of consciousness is really no different from another person's stream of consciousness. Being selfish is really irrational if there is no self. That's why this is relevant to moral philosophy. We may succeed in making your future experiences better, but those experiences are no more yours than a stranger's experiences are yours. I hope I have managed to make the claim a bit clearer, but I doubt it. This whole idea is sort of like a different lens to view reality though. And while it is very difficult to explain with words what that alternate view looks like, once you have tried the lenses on for your self, it seems quite clear that this view is both truer to the facts of neuroscience and truer to the facts of your own inner experience, once you take a close enough look at it. The philosopher Derek Parfit explains this all better than anyone in this book "Reasons and Persons". I highly recommend it. I also recommend this guided meditation: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lXewhJqdiLh9hbc It might not work for you, but to increase your chances, try not to think or analyze. Just follow the directions. You can think skeptically about it later, the point here is simply to try that alternate view on for a while.

[@aprilthomas1489]

Do thoughts have thoughts?

[@dd-vr6rm]

April Thomas if all there is are thoughts then nothing else exsist. So every thought is in fact a spring board for another thought. If there is nothing new under the sun how could it be anything else? How many thoughts have you thought that hasnt been thought before? And when you think about that realize its just another thought 😂

[@glynemartin]

+Exploring Phenospace _"What is it that makes the experiences produced by your brain yesterday and the experiences produced by your brain today belong to the same person?"_ ...so exactly *what* is it that KNOWS (without the slightest modicum of doubt) that it is definitely having this "experience produced by the brain"???...

[@glynemartin]

_"Do thoughts have thoughts?"_ ...a better question is: Do you have thoughts, or do thoughts have you??...what do YOU think??..(grin)...

[@embemw1]

Why the dreadful piano music? Cut it please!

[@freshedits8408]

Haha

[@douglaswallace7680]

If Self does not exist, I should not be able to hear this video because N O B O D Y I S T A L K I N G ! ! ! I can't think about this right now because I do not exist in order to think that I do not exist in order to think that I do not exist in order.......

[@mustaphajaiteh8462]

Simply I think therefore I am

[@Notthought]

@@mustaphajaiteh8462 I am therefore I think, stuff also exists.

[@lucasheijdeman2581]

You are not hearing/thinking anything. There is just sound/thought without anything or anyone observing/experiencing it.

[@ozzymorrison8628]

The music killed it

[@Coffeeisnecessarynowpepper]

They’re killing it!!

[@jimmynellimusic]

My personal experience has led me to believe that "de-ja-vu" moments are actually part of this illusion. You know when you think about someone and then that moment you get a text from them? Perhaps that's just your mind's way of helping you recall a linear (singular) internal dialogue that actually never happened. My conclusion is that it's so unlikely that I'm thinking of someone the moment they text me (happened nearly a dozen times to me), that the only explanation is that my mind tricked me (thanks to the ego illusion) into thinking that's what I thought at that moment. It may have been circling in my thoughts, but I had no reason to be thinking about them in the scenarios they happened. IF there is a more supernatural explanation, our minds are designed in such a way that we cannot comprehend the answers or see them for what they are. We are running on a very closed operating system. So much so that we have to actually look at ourselves at multiple angles, just to theorize how we may or may not actually be

[@maxbamberger4934]

Very interesting, but I think you may underestimate how statistically probable it is that you might think of someone and they text at that moment given how many thoughts and how many communications you have throughout a day, especially when combined with potential correlation between what led you to think of them and what led them to text you

[@conspiracytheorist2181]

*Grateful to find you out there. Too psychologically traumatized at this time in my life to sit with this dharma teaching, though. I've been struggling the past couple of years to climb out of a deficit and back up to the break even point, spiritually speaking. But I'll be in the neighborhood.*

[@sophiastar9713]

sounds like a conspiracy

[@imannasseri5160]

What’s an illusion? Where does that language come from and why

[@sophiastar9713]

Yss The illusion is that we consist of 7 billion billion billion atoms, each one spinning billions of times a second as quarks burst forth spinning billions of times a second as 3 points of light forming protons and neutrons. And this is called solidity. Solidity is the illusion.

[@osvaldovaldes10009]

Nisargadatta claims there is no ‘I Am’ and his proof is that the feeling of a me comes and goes; that it eventually disappears. It will be a beneficial to define your terms: who or what says I don’t exist and isn’t this a blatant contradiction?

[@alexweed4life265]

There is no separation. We are all really one. We define ourselves by our differences. If you tell me your favorite color is red then maybe based on your choice it makes me think about my favorite color being blue. A very wise man once said. " If I am I,because you are you, and you are you because I am I, then I am not really I, and you are not really you." It's like a type of polar thinking between humans that really defines us and who we think we are,even though in reality wer are all one thing with no real separation between anything.

[@teresaparker6726]

alex weed4life and what is that ONE thing?. And what's the purpose in ANY "thing,"?

One of Sam Harris' arguments about free will was the determination of our actions (the behaviour of "self") according to our genetics and etc. But when the subject comes to the "self" itself, he defends that what we call "self" is an illusion because it continiously changes. In my example, does our DNA change over time? I think it's a bit conflicting. On the other hand, I model our mind as a room/house. There are furnitures that affect our life style and we are free to change them even though it needs effort and time (this is what we call self-improvement). And there may be trespassers, who bring in a lot of unnecessary furnitures into our room and throw them around. We are also capable of managing, resisting and removing them. Just because science hasn't or can't explain free will, feeling of self and consciousness yet; we shouldn't go around and tell people "hey, you are nothing! go die!". If every thing is for nothing, then what would be the point of such a behaviour? It doesn't contribute anything to our daily lives.

[@sophiastar9713]

Just because science can't explain? Quantum physics explains a lot, which these people never get around to. How come they don't explain that we consist of 7 billion billion billion atoms all spinning billions of times a second as quarks burst forth and spin billions of times a second as 3 points of light forming protons and neutrons. There is a huge amount of energy in that spinning. That is why we are electrical magnetic energy field vibrational beings. We are not solid or physical or biological. That is the illusion.

[@GUPTAYOGENDRA]

How can I know that I don't exist if I don't exist.

[@ernestweber5207]

You can't know that. Anything you know, you can't be. You are simply being it right now. The wanting to know is the urge to maintain duality. You want to know! You are the dreamer as a dream about what never was. So, you don't know that you don't exist because knowing that would merely be an idea of knowing it that turns out to be nothing at all, which is this.

[@miguelpereira9859]

@Joseph Leone You nailed it

[@justmy2cents_]

How can you not exist to exist,doesn't make sense! Our mind is a very confusing & unusual device granted but I truly believe we have sensors & receptors that were created to help us on this journey çalled life! Our brain is like a super computer before there was even a computer the original! We just can't figure it out because of its complexity. When we look in a mirror what do we see? Ourselves is it not or is it an illusion of some sorts? The Matrix comes to mind when dealing with such an amazing subject of science vs theory vs physics! We have our senses hardwired to our consciousness for a reason and that is for the "experiences" of being human a very intricate part of our universe. Our level of spirituality/consciousness is what dictates our realities in my opinion! The higher we are consciously the more complete we are mentally & spiritually!

[@mindfulkayaker7737]

I (as individual) does not exist. If we define the Self as something I have inside our body or mind is of course is an illusion. But the self as the sense “I am” before it is qualified by any verb, adjective or adverbs and shared by all 7 billion of people on this earth, Then it of course is an undeniable fact that goes beyond science or religion opinion.

[@hermansohier7643]

That's why Nissargadatta Maharai said to go the I AM ,and trancend it.Ofcource he knew that there whas no one who could do that,but that whas the quote that delivered total freedom for no one .A lot of people are stopping at the I AM,because it's nice to abide there,but this will disappear at it's own time .

[@jnighs8380]

There is no self bc there is no other reality is non dual there are no seperate people try to seperate yourself from the universe you cant

[@shifuarena901]

One Mind Got Lonely and Split Itself into Multiple Viewpoints To Not Be Alone😥

[@sampannsharma1314]

Wait you said my self is an illusion, let me which one's illusion

[@foreveryactionthereisacons1683]

Your comment is an illusion and so is mine ☺️😆

[@robertroushar1529]

Really, why the music?

[@chonddak]

It was distracting.

[@Coffeeisnecessarynowpepper]

I love ❤️

[@That_Freedom_Guy]

We think we are where our eyeballs are, but if our eyes are fed information from another place, we will think we are there instead. The sense of place is as false as the sense of one who claims to be in that place!

[@rodolfjohnpedroche4046]

Existence is to understand the meaning of existence itself...

[@TheAmbamatamantrasvideos]

And then let go

[@williamburts5495]

i would say that existence is a self-explanatory reality.

[@quaticYO]

In some way, it seems, no one could make you understand it. The abilities we have enhanced and are lucky to possess should be able to reach the conclusion on their own. Sam harris' well articulated explanation of this topic helped confirm a suspicion that rose within the brain while making an effort to follow facts and logic. The deterministic part at the end of the video doesn't help propagate the message in a practical way. Many who may be on the fence and run into that deterministic view will, most likely, get scared away and keep their distance from the topic.

[@winstonchang777]

If a TV has only one channel, we think it is strange or limited. If a person has many selves, he is psychotic.

[@sophiastar9713]

That is the psychopathic people on this earth that you are describing. They think we are solid and should have only one mind, one way of thinking. That way they can control us easier. But the physicist Barbara Brennan proved that we are multidimensional holograms. i vote for her as president of anything and everything.

[@Godschild33]

I don’t know why I enjoyed this.

[@mufasrakhalid1066]

IF I SEE MY FOOT RIGHT NOW IT MEANS I HAVE FOOT, IF TOMROW I DON'T SEE MY FOOT THEN I WOULD BELIVE I DON'T HAVE A FOOT AND IF I SEE MY SELF IN THE MIRROR TODAY AND BUT I DON'T SEE MYSELF IN THE MIRROR TOMMROW THEN WHAT, WHAT IS YOUR POINT.

[@jkd6969]

The point is* are you real, the sense of personal I ?

[@mufasrakhalid1066]

@@jkd6969 I canot say for if I am real or not, but if it's certain that I am in an illusion I don't truly understand what it means to be in an illusion, the programmer in my head confuses me all the time makes me condritict my views, over all the puppet is manufactured in a way tht he canot address if it is in an illusion or reality and tht is the point of mind control programming.

[@billyblim1213]

I've never understood what people mean by "self," so I also don't know what they mean by "there is no self."

[@miguelpereira9859]

The self is a tangible substance, or so I'd imagine

[@sophiastar9713]

You have to realize energy is the only self and everything is energy. We just happen to be within this energy as forms.

[@lucasheijdeman2581]

The self is a conventional label for those experiences which are being identified with as being a seperate entity apart from the world and other people. Those experiences exist without a seperate observer. And in that sense there is no self/an actual seperate entity but just a machine like display of thoughts and feelings that tell the story of Billy with all his problems and hopes.

[@gerardinecizmar]

Are they bracing us for a sequel to Vanilla Sky?

[@tomcherney4047]

One must open their minds in order to understand! Perhaps, a dream within a dream?

[@arthurteo5795]

Thats what Christian Bale's character: Patrick Bateman said of himself, in the starting of the movie masterpiece : American Psycho.

[@satanshameer690]

I know I don't know exist. I could commit suicide this very moment. But still something keeps pushing me forward. I feel like I have a purpose in life. A purpose for being happy, making others happy, bringing changes, etc

[@mufasrakhalid1066]

WE KNOW THT WE ARE NOTHING BUT EVERYTHING TO YOU AND THT HAS TO BE THE BIGGEST ILUSION EVER.

[@mallory5872]

Oh thank God! This has just been too painful.

[@Competitive_Antagonist]

There does seem some truth to this. There isn't really one part of the brain that creates consciousness, but a host of different networks all working together. This is probably quite different to how the average person views their self. Though there's a lot of newage baggage that comes with stuff like this, the key thing I think they're trying to express is that the way we observe ourself is different to the way researchers understand the self. It's an illusion because we have a distorted view of it.

[@Competitive_Antagonist]

11,999,999 views I'd be interested to know why. You think that I misrepresented the views of people like Harris incorrectly or this notion of the illusory self is wrong?

[@Competitive_Antagonist]

11,999,999 views For some reason those links wouldn't show up on the video page, but seems like I have found them anyway. I can see your point of him having an emotional bias for this. Some of his points he's raised in his podcasts seem like they're rested more on personal experience than objective knowledge, which isn't a good idea when suggesting that our own perceptions of ourselves is wrong. There seems to be two aspects of his argument; neuroscience and personal experience with meditation. I hope these will be individually challenged in the links provided. I'll go and rest with some kava and have a good read. Would also be good to know if you take issue with practises like meditation or the idea that free will is an illusion.

[@genewhiteman8542]

You are the center and the creater

[@daggeleslee6640]

SO many comments below that do not understand. Keep going, keep asking and making jokes about it and eventually you will be rewarded with what you ask and see what this actually means. Its not as literal as you think it is, it is so much more complex then that. Keep going.

[@iamessence6268]

I'm 100 percent sure I do not exist.

[@termikesmike]

“ We are as Real as Donald Trump’s Renoir.” “I am an Elephant, no, now I’m a Donkey.” “ No, you’re an as….either way, you’re deluded.” “ A Dream within a dream.” “We are the dreams of Adam- if he wakes up we’re gone !! ”

[@victorjcano]

The message is great the broken record of the piano is not necessary. Too distracting I won’t be able to listen to the rest of this

[@Coffeeisnecessarynowpepper]

No! Please listen to it all!!!!

[@joeroberts453]

Ego is the illusory part, not real Self. Otherwise, there would be nothing to be reincarnated in Buddhist terms or reach Heaven in other religions' beliefs.

[@stanleyklein524]

This video and many (too many) of the comments are tributes to the "kingdom of slight thought".

[@goldjewelry6600]

Everything is consciousness.you are an illusion.the words I you we them are illusion.death is an illusion.to find the truth you must vanish.every emotion stems from fear.every thought stems from fear.

[@jlmadd]

You actually don’t have emotions. They are manipulated through music and television

[@davidsmith-fc9cu]

Alan parsons, a dream within a dream, narrated by Orson wells

[@thecoolcarhd4402]

Do not follow this video, I only saw the title and knew it was evil,You indeed do exist,You also have a SOUL, This video is depressing and you should not listen to it, Accept jesus christ as lord and saviour so you can go to heaven.

[@K_Sunshiiine]

It's all perception, mate. You see what you want to see. Everything you think you know about God, has been filtered through your own perception and experiences. If you perceive that asking these questions is "evil" (a concept that only exists in humankind), then keep walking by faith, instead of sight, this video isn't for you. By the way, just because YOU see it as depressing, doesn't make it bad, and it doesn't mean everyone else sees it that way.

[@sophiastar9713]

Our souls are creating us from where they are and that is heaven.

[@GetMeThere1]

Hmmm. I think "non-existence" is the wrong approach -- or at least it was for me. I found I could approach this issue much better by seeing my view of a personal self as an ILLUSION, rather than as not existing. Furthermore (and thanks to the book Here to Here, Turning Toward Enlightenment, by Gary Crowley) I found that the really key issue was specifically seeing that CONSCIOUS WILL is an illusion. That seems to me to be the most difficult barrier, and once you see that one the rest is easy.

[@Maryamali-k8o]

Do cats exist ?? Or they are just illusion tooo

[@osvaldovaldes10009]

“The truth will set you free” whom was Jesus referring to if you are an illusion?

[@michaelchamberlain8851]

we are all one consciousness having separate subjective experiences giving us the illusion of separation

[@hermansohier7643]

How can there be a collective 'we' if there's no 'i' ?

[@michaelchamberlain8851]

@@hermansohier7643 yes you are right it's an illusion... we are all having the same illusion which makes it seem real

[@foreveryactionthereisacons1683]

I said this to someone on IG. They were not happy with the comment. I had four spheres tell me we're all connected in a dream. I don't think I was in my body. I felt up not down. And the same sphere has given me other messages, I cannot forget the kindness of the voice. Either an angel or my deceased twin. Either way.. gratitude is all I feel for the messages. I think the hardest part about being human is to not take on the collective suffering. How do you not... ??

[@williamburts3114]

Who is it that realizes that there is no self?

[@jameelisaac7628]

William Burts no one or awareness

[@williamburts3114]

Jameel, If that represents knowledge then it contradicts itself.

[@laze4534]

They're not saying that 'you' don't exist at any capacity more that the intuitive way 'you' perceive life is an illusion. Our experiences are processed by the subconscious and only after a decision and action has been been set in motion are 'we' then made aware of it. In terms of what exactly we are, to me, it seems we use the languages we've created to assimilate sensory information into contextualized ideas, spending years attaching superficial labels to things we take in through our senses, organizing them in order of importance in regards to the various feelings our bodies supply using chemicals.

[@williamburts3114]

Hey Liam,It seems to me that Sam Harris is a naturalist, he is one of those people that believe that everything is reducible to chemicals and neurons but you can study chemicals and neurons forever studying them won't tell you what it is like " to be human" that is something you can know only by living, by interacting, that knowledge doesn't come from brains it comes from life. We are not fleshbots, we are beings that learn lessons from trial and error. We don't get wisdom from neurons we get wisdom and knowledge by learning, and that requires a self who is the experiencer of what he experiences. The experiencer must be different from the experience in order to be conditioned by his experiences. If you were to ask someone what is it like " to be human" you would probably get different answers which would prove that each person is unique in their own way, we are not automatons, we are entities that struggle to make a better life for ourselves.

[@laze4534]

Okay then, so what do you make of the research being done that shows choices are made subconsciously a few seconds before we are aware of them? The majority of experiments coming out of neuroscience do suggest we are 'fleshbots', so many cases of brain damage that show this too, look up Phineas Gage who damage his pre frontal cortex, how it altered his entire personality.

[@Leon-gr2oo]

The informations presented in this video are correct

[@MegaTrivial]

And how about you, do you exist? And why are you lying; you´re saying you do not exist and still are saying"you"?! Whom do you want to believe this?!

[@dd-vr6rm]

Shqiponja Mehmeti lolol

[@dragonfurp]

this would be like if neo enters the matrix and tells people that they dont exist, and them then saying "well you are clearly asking the question, so you do exist". They dont get it! And you cant fault them for not getting it either (bc they are in the simulation)

[@ernestweber5207]

It is just like the characters in your dreams who may walk up to you, (or make a comment like this) who might come up to you and you think they exist and they may even say they don't, but then you wake up here reading a comment and your question dissolves into what is beyond belief. The problem is the solution and the question is the answer.

[@Brian.001]

Always the fucking background music! WHY???

[@robertjsmith]

You exist as everything,not a "part" of everything