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In this video, we explore how the brain tags which memories to keep and the role of a special brain wave – a hippocampal sharp-wave ripple in this process.

Sam Harris and Roger Penrose discuss the mysteries of consciousness and selfhood.

Is the Self merely an illusion?

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Many have sought to divide the self into separate parts. From Aristotle’s distinction between the rational and irrational self to Freud’s separation of the conscious and unconscious mind, from Kahneman’s fast and slow self to McGilchrist’s selves of the left and right brain. But critics argue it makes no sense to see the self as divided. From Descartes to Sartre, many philosophers have concluded that to be conscious is to be conscious of something and there can be no further self hiding within consciousness. After all, if there are two aspects of the self does it not require a third to oversee or combine them? Meanwhile, neuroscience has been unable to identify a self at all let alone multiple selves.