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Posted: 17 May 2022

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Mirror Test

Mirror Test
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 Dinesh
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Consider a test of my bodily continuity that I’ll call the Mirror Test. Every day when I wake up and look in the mirror I look like myself from the day before. But if I were to look at mirror snapshots from my birthday at fifteen, twenty-five, thirty-five and so on, I would see big changes. Yes, I am the same person housed in the same body, but the body as seen in the face has changed a lot. We naturalists say the situation is the same with your psychological self -- it changes a lot over the course of your life; you experience the changes incrementally because of your epistemic position. You are with yourself all the time, everyday you meet, indeed you have become your own closest continuer. ~ Page 138

THE BODHISATTVA'S BRAIN
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