The self with Sam harris

Sometimes you need different counterintuitive thoughts and views to understand reality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kanizsa_triangle.svg

The self: There probably is no real self experiencing this world. We are more like a cloud of thoughts and emotions changing all the time. However, it makes sense to sometimes have a mental model of the self to act somehow coherently in the world. As Sam Harris puts it:

“That said, the self-illusion is probably an inescapable experience we need for interacting with others and the world, and indeed we cannot readily abandon or ignore its influence, but we should be skeptical that each of us is the coherent, integrated entity we assume we are.”