the Vatican is an organization that excommunicates women for attempting to become priests13 but does not excommunicate male priests for raping childr… - Sam Harris

If my brain were surgically divided by callosotomy tomorrow, this would create at least two independent conscious minds, both of which would be psychologically continuous with the person who is now writing this paragraph. If my linguistic abilities happened to be distributed across both hemispheres, each of these minds might remember having written this sentence. The question of whether I would land in the left hemisphere or the right doesn’t make sense — being based, as it is, on the illusion that there is a self bobbing on the stream of consciousness

The core of science is not a mathematical modeling — it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.

"Consciousness is already free of everything that remotely resembles a self".