Is the 'real you' a special substance that is nonphysical and immortal? Most regular people would agree, but most scientists would not. What are you? A body alone that is dead forever once it dies? A soul temporally inhabiting a body? A body unified with a nonphysical entity of some kind? What some theologians think may surprise you.

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Daniel Clement Dennett III is an American philosopher, writer and cognitive scientist and is currently the Codirector of the Center for Cognitive Studies and Professor at Tufts University.

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