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No-Self, Illustrated

The Buddhists insist that the sense of self is just that: a sense. There is no real, permanent, unchanging "I" or "you." Rather, these are convenient signifiers for impermanent collections of ever-changing conditions.

All that to say that this SMBC strip is a funny illustration of that idea as it applies to physiology.