22/09/2015 - Neuroscience backs up the Buddhist belief that “the self” isn’t constant, but ever-changing

YOU'RE NOT THE SAME   

Neuroscience backs up the Buddhist belief  that “the self” isn’t constant, but ever-changing   

WRITTEN BY Olivia Goldhill   
September 20, 2015   

While you may not remember life as a toddler, you most likely believe that your selfhood then—your essential being—was intrinsically the same as it is today.

“Buddhists argue that nothing is constant, everything changes through time, you have a constantly changing stream of consciousness,” Evan Thompson, a philosophy of mind professor at the University of British Columbia, tells Quartz. “And from a neuroscience perspective, the brain and body is constantly in flux. There’s nothing that corresponds to the sense that there’s an unchanging self.”   more...