This episode may help you to think more deeply about who you are. I begin with the uncontroversial observation that personal information about you provides only superficial knowledge. Much of the discussion is about whether it is appropriate to think of our selves as fixed entities. The main theme of the discussion is that it makes sense to identify with your natural self, which embodies instinct and emotion as well as reason. 

The discussion draws on insights of psychologists, neurologists, and philosophers.

The following books are referred to in this episode:

Bates, Winton, Freedom, Progress, and Human Flourishing, Hamilton Books, 2021.

Campbell, Richard, The Metaphysics of Emergence, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Gallwey, Timothy, The Inner Game of Tennis, Pan Books, 1975.

Haidt, Jonathan. The Happiness Hypothesis, Basic Books, 2006.

 Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking Fast and Slow, Penguin, 2011.

  Whitman, Walt, Complete Works of Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Book III ‘Song of Myself’. (The poem, ‘Song of Myself’, was first published in the collection Leaves of Grass, in 1855.)

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