{"id":493,"date":"2014-03-28T21:53:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T08:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=493"},"modified":"2023-03-06T18:26:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T05:26:53","slug":"the-ego-trick-julian-baggini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2014\/03\/28\/the-ego-trick-julian-baggini\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ego Trick &#8212; Julian Baggini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microphilosophy.net\/?p=837\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-642\" alt=\"The Ego Trick by Julian Baggini\" src=\"http:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/the-ego-trick.jpg\" width=\"317\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/the-ego-trick.jpg 317w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/the-ego-trick-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/the-ego-trick-95x150.jpg 95w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><\/a>This is a pretty good exposition of the &#8220;bundle theory&#8221; of consciousness. The idea is that &#8220;consciousness&#8221; does not exist: all there are are discrete conscious experiences, which combine to form the illusion of an integrated cohesive mind. This is the &#8220;ego trick&#8221; that we all play on ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>These days I feel that this is something like the truth, but I will need to do a lot more thinking and read a lot more books like this one before I am fully comfortable with the idea.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a pretty good exposition of the &#8220;bundle theory&#8221; of consciousness. The idea is that &#8220;consciousness&#8221; does not exist: all there are are discrete conscious experiences, which combine to form the illusion of an integrated cohesive mind. This is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2014\/03\/28\/the-ego-trick-julian-baggini\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,227,52,28],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-books","tag-julian-baggini","tag-mind","tag-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4286,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/4286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}