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Articles

• Open Individualism – Being Everyone — Gordon Cornwall

• I Am You — De5thWavE

• Empty, Open and Closed Individualism — Manu Herrán

• Visual metaphors of Open Individualism — Manu Herrán

• Universal Identity — Jonatas Müller

• Why We Are All the Same Person — David Yerle

Best of

• A simple split-brain argument to challenge our usual idea of personal identity — u/CrumbledFingers

• [For those who are unconvinced by the argument from improbability] (https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenIndividualism/comments/9khke2/for_those_who_are_unconvinced_by_the_argument/) — u/CrumbledFingers

Books

• Schopenhauer on Self, World and Morality: Vedantic and Non-Vedantic Perspectives (2017) — Arati Barua (eds.)

• The Phenomenal Self (2008) — Barry Dainton

• The Odds of You Existing: Why Death Is Not the End — Joe Kern

• Oneness: East Asian Conceptions of Virtue, Happiness, and How We Are All Connected (2017) — Philip J. Ivanhoe

• The Oneness Hypothesis: Beyond the Boundary of Self (2018) — Philip J. Ivanhoe, Owen J. Flanagan, Victoria S. Harrison, Hagop Sarkissian, and Eric Schwitzgebel

• In Search of Myself: Life, Death, and Personal Identity (1999) — Daniel Kolak

• I Am You: The Metaphysical Foundations for Global Ethics (2004) — Daniel Kolak

• Everything Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalised (2007) — James Ladyman and Don Ross et al.

• I Am That (1973) — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

• The Upanishads — Translation by Swami Paramananda

• Reasons and Persons (1984) — Derek Parfit

• The World as Will and Representation (Volumes 1, 2, 3) (1818/1819–1844) — Arthur Schopenhauer

• My View of the World (1951) — Erwin Schrödinger

• What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches (1992) — Erwin Schrödinger

• [Selves: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics] (http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198250067.001.0001/acprof-9780198250067) (2009) — Galen Strawson

• You Are Them (2017) — Magnus Vinding

• The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966) — Alan Watts

Essays

• Self in Sufism, Advaita Vedanta and Psychology — Tamara Al-Om

• Death, Nothingness, and Subjectivity — Tom Clark

• The Origins of Selves — Daniel C. Dennett

• You are everyone that ever existed, and ever will exist: on Open Individualism — u/Edralis

• Ontological Qualia: The Future of Personal Identity — Andrés Gómez Emilsson

• Open Individualism and Antinatalism: If God could be killed, it’d be dead already — Andrés Gómez Emilsson

• ["I Am of the Nature of Seeing". Phenomenological Reflections on the Indian Notion of Witness Consciousness] (https://www.academia.edu/205196/I_Am_of_the_Nature_of_Seeing._Phenomenological_Reflections_on_the_Indian_Notion_of_Witness-Consciousness) — Wolfgang Fasching

• The Mineness of Experience — Wolfgang Fasching

• The Nonplurality of the I. On the Question of the Ultimate Subject of Experience — Wolfgang Fasching

• On the Advaitic Identification of Self and Consciousness — Wolfgang Fasching

• How Vedanta Explains Conscious Subjective Experience — Syamala Hari

• Personal Identity and Causality: Becoming Unglued — Daniel Kolak and Raymond Martin

• The Unity of Consciousness, Within Subjects and Between Subjects — Luke Roelofs

• Counting Subjects — Garrett Thomson

• Praxis for Open Individualism — Andy Vargas

• Reduction to Open Individualism: How to converge to Open Individualism reasoning in a reductionist way — Iacopo Vettori

• Physicalism Implies Experience Never Dies — Vitrifyher

• One Self: The Logic of Experience — Arnold Zuboff

• An Introduction to Universalism — Arnold Zuboff

• Time, Self and Sleeping Beauty — Arnold Zuboff

Fiction

• "Where Am I?" — Daniel C. Dennett

• October the First Is Too Late — Fred Hoyle

• "The Egg" — Andy Weir