Our Fictional Minds

In Buddhism, the self is not a thing, but a process—impermanent, dependent, and ultimately empty. Our Fictional Minds explores this central truth in modern language, tracing how identity forms through habit, memory, and mental fabrication. Drawing from Buddhist teachings alongside neuroscience, psychology, and physics, this revolutionary book shows how clinging to self-stories leads to suffering. David Fisher shows that, when we try to manage the uncontrollable, preserve what cannot last, and ex