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    You're Not The Same Person: Science Proves It

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    Explore cutting-edge neuroscience and philosophy revealing why your intuition is right - you're genuinely not the same person as your past self, and that's actually liberating.

    You're Not The Same Person: Science Proves It

    Best quote from You're Not The Same Person: Science Proves It

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    The feeling of being a different person isn't a bug in human psychology; it might be a feature. You're not just discovering yourself, you're actively creating yourself every day.

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    Knowledge sources
    The Ego Trick
    Selfless
    The book; on the taboo against knowing who you are
    Temporal Self-Compression: Behavioral and neural evidence that past and future selves are compressed as they move away from the present
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    https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.22.427831v1.full
    Sameness and the self: philosophical and psychological considerations - PubMed
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    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24523707/
    Personal Identity and Ethics - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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    https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-ethics/

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    Opening & Welcome

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    Topic Introduction & Source Material Setup

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    The Illusion of Continuity

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    Social Construction of Identity

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    The Neuroscience of Self-Perception

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    Practical Implications for Daily Life

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    Practical Applications & Listener Takeaways

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