The Self That Wasn't There

Three independent traditions - 2, 500 years of Buddhist contemplative practice, 18th-century Humean philosophy, and 21st-century neuroscience - converged on the same uncomfortable conclusion: the "self" you take yourself to be is not what's actually there. This book is the synthesis they never wrote. It walks through what each method found, where they overlapped, and what the convergence means for how you live the rest of your life - without the spiritual hand-waving and without the materialist flattening. For readers of Sam Harris, Robert Wright, and Annaka Harris who want the question taken seriously across all three frames at once.