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Ego

Ego

When my left thinking network went off-line, a specific part of my personality, a character that I had known for decades as my ego-self, also disappeared.

 It was not as though I was missing a memory that I simply could not put my finger on; it was more like that memory (and I myself) had never existed at all.

It’s a bit disconcerting to think that who we are is completely manufactured by a small group of cells in our left brain, and that we can lose ourselves at any moment, but that is exactly how fragile our ego identities are.

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