The meeting up

There is some kind of meeting up of the parts. Skreeworld has recurring subject matter. That religion is not a force for good, that there is no mind/body duality, that being is a singular but that self is a multiplicity of urges, drives, feelings, thoughts and moods. Through Candace Pert we learned that receptor sites are all over us, not just in the brain, emotions take place all over us. From Ryle that bodies exist in space and are subject to physical laws where as minds do not exist in space and can not be said to be spatially anywhere.
Having grown up an atheist religion was something others practised as was astrology and other supernatural belief. I have only recently returned to the subject through pointing out how abandoning reason, being unreasonable is bad for the world. There is no interventionist creator. More recently we have been discussing the lack of self. We are not autonomous individuals, rather we are a product of the history and influences of those around us. This notion of no self is familiar to both Buddhists and philosophers. Buddha taught that enlightenment required 'annatta' , the loss of self. Hume argued there is no single core self but a bundle of experiences and sensations.
Most of us believe we posees a self, an internal individual who resides inside our bodies who is the pilot or author of our vehicle or story. A 'me' inside me. This idea is under threat from science and understanding of the brain. Rather than a single entity the self is a constellation of mechanisms and experiences that creates the illusion of an internal you. Our brain is a device that constructs narratives. It looks for and invariably finds causal patterns, even where there are none. It discards awkward details that disprove the stories it creates and depends on.
Having abandoned the stories as a race we developed to help us in difficult times, a creator who can intervene to help us out when we face our ends, having abandoned the story of a life after death it seems now we must learn that we, ourselves are not as we thought. Gilbert Ryle struggled with the fact our language is structured using the assumption of the ghost in the machine, the idea of a little man inside our heads controlling us. The understanding that there is not requires we step outside of linguistic convention. Language is thought yet there is not room within our construct to explain what we are finding out. The illusion of self may well be the most difficult concept we have yet come across.
There is a common thread to Ryle, Harris, hood, Pert, Buddhism even yoga and that is that there is no dancer just the dance. There is no 'I' am thinking these thoughts, only the thoughts. God is a delusion and self is an illusion, that is not to say an illusion does not exist nor it's significance explored.