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Subject-representation can be interrupted for the better

Just as neurological processes representing the world or body can break down (blindness, motion blindness, inability to name living things), the brain's representation of a subject internal to the body can be interrupted—and unlike most disruptions this one is for the better, halting the usual cascade of psychological suffering and revealing that thoughts arise on their own with no thinker authoring them.

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Speaker

Sam Harris

Evidence Quote

you can represent the world and you can represent your body in the world and you can cease to represent a subject internal to the body... what remains in that case is a sense that the mind is much vaster than it was a moment ago

Source

295 - Philosophy And The Good LifeMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:54:42 AM

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