The Self is an Illusion - You Do Not Exist 

You have no soul.

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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.

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.

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

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

@@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.

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..

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

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Forgetting that this didnt trip you all out.

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! ✍🏼

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

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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.

draymunoz I think therefore I am hallucinating

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

Impossible you dont exist im sorry

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@@mementomori5374 Hahaha 😀🙃

@@foreveryactionthereisacons1683 😁🍺

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

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.

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.

@@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.

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

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.

No pun intended, I guess...

Yea seriously

Do you still wish

@@Coffeeisnecessarynowpepper i do! Lol

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

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

But that's hell of a lot.

it's even harder to imagine it not

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.🙂

Tan Johnny lol they all dont exist 😂

@@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.😄

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

why can an illusion not affect an illusion?

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

@@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.

@@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 "

@@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!

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)!

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.

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 ? .

Nobody, of course. That is actually obvious.

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

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Joe Ali The ONE Consciousness knows.

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

Is not the Real Self too an illusion?

EXACTLY that is the point of this thought exercise

Not the parts where Susan Blackmore is speaking.

The music doesnt exist

@@willstevens5059 ......Lmao!

Music is illusion in your brains.

@@SenEmChannel brains do not exist either Lmao

@@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

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.

sounds like a conspiracy

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: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_FMSggSSJOU.html 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.

Do thoughts have thoughts?

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 😂

+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"???...

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

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

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

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.

@Joseph Leone You nailed it

You know nothing

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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.

It was distracting.

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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 ?

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 .......

Thank you bro

@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).

@@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.

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.

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

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

Rumi is funny xD .

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.

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

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

I think the military industrial complex says nothing matters and that is why they exist.

And then let go

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

No, it's not an illusion. These thinkers are confused because of their scientific concepts of time, space, matter etc.. Once they hit the depths of reality they toss everything out with the bath water. Sam Harris for instance highly educated in neuroscience and philosophy concludes we have no free will😮 We all do, his conclusion is incorrect simply because it's based on current concepts of time, space and causality. Peace

Simply I think therefore I am

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

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

Your comment is an illusion and so is mine ☺️😆

People get paid for this babble!!!!

words create oxymorons

Richard Wilson nothing

Well, if you find out what meaning really means, then the question is the problem.

There is no "I". We are all one.

It's the same as if you would say rainbow unicorn you can say the words but word's are just references. So I is an empty reference. It points to nothing.

2 years later I hope your mom is with you ❤️

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