But it's interesting to go a little further and think actually about what the concept means and where it comes from.

我们可以讨论得更深入些,想想这个概念的真正意义和它的来源

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Wikipedia informs us that the self is the idea of a unified being, which is the source of an idiosyncratic consciousness.

我把它读出来吧,维基百科告诉我们self是，一个统一存在的概念,也就是特殊意识的来源。

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