If minds are brains, we need to rethink common conceptions of the nature of persons and the self. The religious idea of the immortal soul provided an appealing picture of the self as a spiritual entity, but overcoming the soul illusion requires a dramatic shift in how we view ourselves. The empiricist philosopher David Hume argued that there is nothing more to the self than a bundle of perceptions, but our thinking seems more unified than just a series of sensory experiences. Immanuel Kant sought such unity in transcendental selves that make all experience possible, but there is no more evidence for such entities than there is for souls. Can understanding the brain tell us anything about the nature of persons and start to answer the troubling question of who you are?