Figure 7.1

The Buddha taught the doctrine of "anatta" or "no self." Parfit calls him the
first bundle theorist.

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Questions about the nature of consciousness are intimately bound up with those about the nature of self because it seems as though there must be someone having the experience, that there cannot be experiences without an experiencer. Our experiencing self seems to be at the center of everything we are aware of at a given time and to be continuous from one moment to the next. In other words, it seems to have both unity and continuity. The problem start when you ask what kind of thing that experience might be.

That this apparently natural way of thinking about ourselves is problematic has been recognized for millennia. In the sixth century BC the Buddha challenged contemporary thinking with the doctrine of “anatta” or no-self. He claimed that the self is just a name or label given to something that does not really exist. A suggestion that seems as hard to understand and accept today as it was then. . . . . . In philosophy there are numerous theories of the nature of self (or what persons are), of personal identity [of what makes someone the same person over time) and of moral responsibility. In psychology research has studied the development of the sense of self in children, the construction of social selves, self-attribution, the factors affecting personal identity, dissociative states, and various pathologies of selfhood. . . . Page 102/103

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