How Seriously Should We Take Scientists Who Give Up on "The Self?"

Two of my friends have sent me the same article on BigThink.com:   "Eastern philosophy says there is no “self.” Science agrees.”

In the piece, author Chris Niebauer, a neuroscientist, argues that recent advances in cognitive science prove that there is no “self-center” in the brain and that though the “I” has been the center of Western thought for thousa…