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SUMMARY:The Self Illusion: Why There is No You Inside Your Head - Professo
 r Bruce Hood
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CONTACT:Graham Edgecombe
DESCRIPTION:Most of us believe that we exist as a self - an internal indiv
 idual who resides inside our bodies\, making decisions\, authoring actions
  and possessing free will. The feeling that a single\, unified\, enduring 
 self inhabits the body - the 'me' inside me - is compelling and inescapabl
 e. This is how we interact as a social animal and judge each other's actio
 ns and deeds. But that sovereignty of the self is increasingly under threa
 t from science as our understanding of the brain advances. Rather than a s
 ingle entity\, the self is really a constellation of mechanisms and experi
 ences that create theillusion of the internal you. We only emerge as a pro
 duct of those around us as part of the different storylines we inhabit fro
 m the cot to the grave. It is an every changing character\, created by the
  brain to provide a coherent interface between the multitude of internal p
 rocesses and the external world demands that require different selves.
LOCATION:Nihon Room\, Pembroke College
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