Big fail about 2/3 the way through on this Nautilus piece. Even if the no-self idea is true, the author admits that the appearance of a self may still be “real.”
A logical derivation from that is what Hume said to the lady who asked him how he could sleep at night with the “problem of causation,” not knowing if the sun would come up tomorrow or not. Hume simply said, he went to sleep.
In other words, he “acted as if.”
Likewise, the “no-self” view does not extinguish egoism.
And, the “shared self” view smoked too much Buddhism. (Or Hinduism, more likely, since she mentions “Atman.”
Of course, when you have the piece author having written a book, “Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness,” you’ll get that.
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