Philosopher Michael Sandel expands on his idea of the encumbered self--the notion that we may be claimed by certain moral ties that can't be
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." Who we are--in other words, the self by which we distinguish ourselves from others--is the entire system that ties together these individual, minute
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Transcript: 't understand me. You understand me. That's your self. That's you. It's not your hippocampus, or your hypothalamus Or your cortex that understands. It's the whole
Philosopher Daniel Dennett talks about the self, noting that every living thing has some sense that there is a difference between the rest of the
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Transcript: I think aristotle had a good idea about the self When he talked about the vegetative or nutritive soul On the one hand, which is just really a