Death and the Self | Robert Wright & Nina Strohminger [The Wright Show]
4:17 Nina’s research on how we understand the self
10:19 The traits that make your self yourself
16:34 Buddhism and the continuity of self through time
22:08 The link between egocentrism and an equanimous attitude toward death
30:30 Bob: Not-self is hard to experience and very hard to understand
46:43 Asian Buddhists vs. “white boy Buddhists”
52:33 Does a happy life require virtuous behavior?
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Nina Strohminger (Wharton School of Business, ninastrohminger.com)
Recorded August 26, 2019
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