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Is the ego an illusion?

>> No.15580658

>>15580650
What's the ego? Like Freudian ego?

>> No.15580660

>>15580650
To whom?

>> No.15580668

>>15580650
yes
>>15580660
consciousness, awareness

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15581066

>>15580650
Yes.

>> No.15581080

whether or not it is changes absolutely nothing about my day-to-day life

>> No.15581402

>>15581066
>>15580668
why didn't civilization take full awareness of this fact? why we don't tell them the self/ego is basically a lie but we have to act as if it's not?

>> No.15581543

>>15580650
No. Its a thing in aperence. An abstraction of multiple phenomena.

>> No.15581704

>>15581402
>why didn't civilization take full awareness of this fact?
too much money and power is invested in propagating egoism and the needs for objects etc that it produces which generates much wealth for those selling the products