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Podcast: A Quest for Well-Being
Episode: The Self Has Only One Job: To Pretend It Is Real
Description: — Money, health, failure, personality, feelings…. Random, random, random. What if there are no connecting dots from experience A to result B? What if experience is new every second and has no prior cause or reason? Of course no one has to believe any of this. It's just a point of view and a "what if." No harm in trying it on. And it just may be worth playing with. Because believing we're in charge of what happens feels awful. And random, though granted, might be almost completely incomprehensible to humans, feels way better. Much lighter. Much more spac...