The Stubbornly Persistent

  NEUROSCIENCE AND THE SELF It is often claimed that what we think of as our “self” does not truly exist. Neuroscientists, for example, find no trace of this self within the brain, no brain structure or process identifiable as “who we are”—something (or someone) that is thinking our thoughts, in charge of our actions,…

  “People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”      —Albert Einstein   If you believe, despite this famous quote of Einstein’s, that there are real, even profound distinctions between the past, the present and the future, then you are one of…