The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 129 of 254
Physical yet not essentially physical
On the one hand, I’ve been arguing that we are entirely physical, and that we have no material souls. But on the other, I insist we are not our brains or our bodies, and that our identity is defined by psychological continuity. We seem to be wholly physical yet oddly not essentially physical at all. The key to understanding how this can be…