[Advaita-l] Fwd: Where Does Your Sense of Self Come From? A Scientific Look - TED Talk

[V Subrahmanian]

Very well said Raghav ji.  A proper exposure to Vedanta works is essential
to ward off misconceived ideas.

regards
subbu

On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 12:30 PM Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste Subbu ji
> That was a really good talk by the Anil Ananthaswamy, an IIT Madras
> Alumnus,  and thanks for sharing.
>
> His take on the narrative self (our story of who we are in vyavahAra that
> we tell ourselves continually) being merely a construct, as evidenced in
> Alzheimer's cases,
>  is not much different from the mithyAtvam of the ahaMkAra asserted by
> vedAnta.
>
> Next he goes on to indicate the "mama sharIraM" idea also as a fluid
> construction i.e., mithyA. This is derived from both phantom and foreign
> limb syndromes (xenomilia).
>
> And then even kartTRtvaM is indicated to be mithyA as in schizophrenia.
>
> So far his talk went well. But then the question, "Who is it that perceives
> or experiences these altered states of selfhood indicating it's constructed
> nature?" is addressed in an illogical way by saying "maybe even that self
> will go away".
>
> To assert difference logically necessitates some unchanging reference/datum
> of experience - this logical requirement is missed. Else, no change can
> even be talked of at all, in the first place. Such an anvaya vyatireka
> logic is unavoidable to assert changes occurring in the self and our
> experience of altered selfhood. And that itself points to the upAdhitvaM of
> the mind against an Unchanging Reference.
>
> Om
> Raghav
>
>
> On Fri, 20 Jan, 2023, 6:12 pm V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l, <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > A talk of about 14 minutes.by  Anil Ananthaswamy
> >
> >
> > https://tinyurl.com/yem3ty4j
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