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Wix comments on [LINK] Being No One (~50 min talk on the self-model in your brain) - Less Wrong
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Great lecture!
In answer to the question of "the immortality of the soul question": ". . . if it is true that the self is not a thing but a process, [...] then it is also true that the tragedy of the ego dissolves, because strictly speaking nobody is ever born and nobody ever dies"
Is he simply stating that the concept of a soul is flawed and therefore the question is inherently Wrong or did I misinterpret?
I didn't get that part either. Why can't all the hopes of immortality be attributed to the organism - which clearly does get born, and does die? Yes, this does aggravate some interpretive questions, but I don't think Metzinger even wrestles with those questions, so in my view he isn't entitled to presume an opposing answer.
As I understand it Dennett is by and large of the same camp as Metzinger, he describer a self as fictive aka narrative gravity, but he still seems to think the concept is worth keeping.
http://www.closertotruth.com/video-profile/How-do-Persons-Maintain-Their-Identity-Daniel-Dennett-/605
Maybe not the best like but the later 3/4 of the video is quite good.