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The Lacetier

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“Montaigne and Shakespeare have each been held up as the first truly modern writers, capturing that distinctive modern sense of being unsure where you belong, who you are, and what you are expected to do. The Shakespearean scholar J. M. Robertson believed that all literature since these two authors could be interpreted as an elaboration of their joint theme: the discovery of self-divided consciousness.”

“To put the question another way, is the brain all there is to us, a fantastically clever machine that creates a mind, which in turn creates an illusory sense of an independent self, which then collapses when the brain itself starts to die? Or is there such a thing as a separate selfhood, a secret core of self which I imagine as a glossy pearl, existing separately and staying safe from the most violent assaults on the body and of the body?”