Robert Stickgold - What Are Selves?

Get free access to Closer to Truth's library of 5,000 videos: http://bit.ly/376lkKN What does it mean to be a ‘self’? What characteristics distinguish a self from a non-self? What are the boundaries between self and non-self? Is there a difference between a self and a person? What follows from the existence of selves? Support the show with Closer To Truth merchandise: https://bit.ly/3P2ogje Watch more videos on persons and selves: https://shorturl.at/gvB04 Robert Stickgold is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. For a free membership and subscriber-only exclusives, register at: https://bit.ly/3He94Ns Closer To Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.