The Superstition of the Ego

The Superstition of the Ego

• If rigorously rational, cannot find anything corresponding to “ego” anywhere
  • Set of interacting, impersonal mental processes
• Like “Theseus’ Ship”, nothing
  • Fixed
  • Essential
• Myth of ego propagated from earliest age
• Often figment of names

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story about kid in subway

note liinks to western philosophers

Hume

William James

Lucretius

Hindu

note that others have discovered same issue