The Self Illusion: Why There is No 'You' Inside Your Head [Extract]
A Psychology, Science, Biology book. I enjoyed this almost as much as Kahneman's Thinking. Fast and Slow, or Miller's The Mating Mind...
Most of us believe that we are an independent, coherent self--an individual inside our head who thinks, watches, wonders, dreams, and makes plans for the future. This sense of our self may seem incredibly real but a wealth of recent scientific evidence reveals that it is not what it seems--it is all an illusion. In The Self Illusion, Bruce Hood reveals how the self emerges during childhood and how the architecture of the developing brain enables us to become social animals dependent on each other. Humans spend proportionally the greatest amount of time in childhood compared to any other animal. It's not only to learn from others, Hood notes, but also to learn to become like others. We learn to become our self. Even as adults we are continually developing and elaborating this story, learning to become different selves in different situations--the work self, the home self, the parent self. Moreover, Hood shows that this already fluid process--the construction of self--has dramatically changed in recent years. Social networking activities--such as blogging, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter--are fast becoming socialization on steroids. The speed and ease at which we can form alliances and relationships are outstripping the same selection...
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Almost immediately when I saw the book I agreed with the title. The author tries to explain his theory in using nearly all the old psychological experiments and using a lot of scientific facets. But here I'll just give you my round of the mill of why I think this is true.Who you are is an illusion. All you are are different sides of... Great book that helped me think outside the usual realm. It presented some very good points that I was able to identify with. I'm not going to lie when it gave me an almost un-human feeling and that while the human brain is complex that certain things we do are primitive survival instincts or due to mob mentality. I don't personally... I enjoyed this almost as much as Kahneman's Thinking. Fast and Slow, or Miller's The Mating Mind or Louise Barret's Beyond the Brain. Hood explores what it is that we think to be the Self.A telling comment of the book was: "Note how this leaves us with a glaring paradox without a sense of self, memories have no meaning, and yet the...
