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• Anatta


  The Buddhist teaching that there is no fixed, permanent self
• Anonymous


  A situation where you don't know someone's name or who they are
• Atom


  The small parts of matter that make up all physical things
• Authentic


  Honest, genuine, yourself
• Brain in Vat (BIV) Theory

  The idea that you might be a brain in a jar, which has been tricked into thinking it has a body and a life
• Consciousness


  Being awake and aware of yourself and what is happening around you
• Déjà vu


  Feeling like you have seen or experienced something before
• Hallucinations


  Seeing something that is not real
• Identity


  Who you are
• Low self-esteem


  Feeling bad about yourself, like you are not good enough
• Misleading


  Something that gives someone the wrong idea
• Naïve Realism


  The belief that your senses (what you can see, smell etc.) tell you what is real
• Optical Illusion


  Something that tricks your eyes
• Organs


  The things that make your body work, for example, your heart, lungs and liver
• Perception


  Being able to see/ hear and understand things
• Scepticism


  Doubting everything
• Senses


  Seeing, smelling, touching, tasting and hearing things
• Skandhas


  Buddhists believe that we are made up of 5 skandhas (like our thoughts, feelings and body). We depend on them to exist and be ourselves and all of them can change, so we can't have a fixed, permanent self
• Social Media


  Websites and apps that allow you to share things with your friends or followers
• Thought Experiment


  An experiment which comes up with an idea and imagines "what if?" scenarios to try and learn something
• Virtual


  Something that doesn't exist, but that computers make it seem like it does exist
• Virtual Reality


  A computer programme that seems like real life
• 75% of people admit that they make their lives look more exciting on Social Media
• This does not have to be a problem, just as long as we know that we are only seeing the best bits of their lives
• People are often different in different situations
• Behaviours on social media

  • Some people mislead or lie to others
  • It is possible to change the way a picture of you looks using just lighting, poses and camera lenses – you don't even need photoshop!
• People feel like others have perfect lives because of what they see on social media


  This can make them feel bad or give them low-self-esteem, because their life doesn't seem as good as other people's
• Stephen Furtick: 'The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.'
• We see all of our lives and only the best bits of other people's. This can fool us into thinking that our lives are not as good as theirs.
• Essena O'Neill


  An internet celebrity from Coolum, Australia who quit social media in 2015
• Essena O'Neill


  • Had 600,000 Instagram followers
  • Deleted over 2,000 photos in October 2015 at age 18
  • Renamed account "Social Media Is Not Real Life" and rewrote captions for old posts
  • Has now almost disappeared from the internet
• Essena O'Neill said she posed for hundreds of pictures and starved herself, just to get likes and followers on Instagram
• Posting secrets anonymously online


  So that no one can find out who said it
• Beliefs about what makes a person a "real" person


  • A human body that is alive
  • Consciousness (being awake and aware)
  • Free will – the power to choose what to do
  • A brain that can think like a human's brain
  • Human DNA or human cells
• Anatta


  The Buddhist belief that there is no such thing as a fixed, permanent self
• The 5 skandhas (parts that make up a person according to Buddhists)

  • Our bodies
  • Our feelings
  • Our perception – sensing things
  • Our thoughts
  • Our consciousness
• All of the 5 skandhas can change over time – in fact, there is not one cell in your body that was there 7 years ago
• Brain in a Vat theory

  A thought experiment imagining a scientist drugging someone, removing their brain, and keeping it alive in a jar while tricking it into thinking it is still living its life
• How would you know if your brain was in a vat being tricked?