The Buddha taught that the self was conventional, impermanent, and ever changing. We will look to contemporary medicine, science, and philosophy to find how those conclusions are not only supported, but deepened in surprising and even shocking ways.

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00:00 Intro
01:18 The self is divisible: the case of Vicki
08:48 The Vagueness of the self
10:35 Vagueness of the beginning
15:31 Vagueness in the middle
18:28 Vagueness at the end
19:59 The paradoxes of vagueness
22:31 Derek Parfit on vagueness of the self
26:40 Vagueness of the self: some conclusions

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