The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 127 of 254
A singular self without a singular thing
The unity we experience, which allows us legitimately to talk of ‘I’, is a result of the Ego Trick – the remarkable way in which a complicated bundle of mental events, made possible by the brain, creates a singular self, without there being a singular thing underlying it. It seems as though there is some pearl at the self’s core, but in fact there is no core at all.