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Examine the inner workings of the mind and learn what consciousness
and a sense of self really means - and if it even exists. We're
used to thinking about the self as an independent entity, something
that we either have or are. In The Ego Tunnel, philosopher Thomas
Metzinger claims otherwise: No such thing as a self exists. The
conscious self is the content of a model created by our brain-an
internal image, but one we cannot experience as an image.
Everything we experience is "a virtual self in a virtual
reality."But if the self is not "real," why and how did it evolve?
How does the brain construct it? Do we still have souls, free will,
personal autonomy, or moral accountability? In a time when the
science of cognition is becoming as controversial as evolution, The
Ego Tunnel provides a stunningly original take on the mystery of
the mind.
According to Thomas Metzinger, no such things as selves exist in
the world: nobody ever had or was a self. All that exists are
phenomenal selves, as they appear in conscious experience. The
phenomenal self, however, is not a thing but an ongoing process; it
is the content of a "transparent self-model." In "Being No One,"
Metzinger, a German philosopher, draws strongly on neuroscientific
research to present a representationalist and functional analysis
of what a consciously experienced first-person perspective actually
is. Building a bridge between the humanities and the empirical
sciences of the mind, he develops new conceptual toolkits and
metaphors; uses case studies of unusual states of mind such as
agnosia, neglect, blindsight, and hallucinations; and offers new
sets of multilevel constraints for the concept of consciousness.
Metzinger's central question is: How exactly does strong,
consciously experienced subjectivity emerge out of objective events
in the natural world? His epistemic goal is to determine whether
conscious experience, in particular the experience of being someone
that results from the emergence of a phenomenal self, can be
analyzed on subpersonal levels of description. He also asks if and
how our Cartesian intuitions that subjective experiences as such
can never be reductively explained are themselves ultimately rooted
in the deeper representational structure of our conscious
minds.
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Making Sense - Conversations on Consciousness, Morality, and the Future of Humanity (Standard format, CD, Library Edition)
Sam Harris, Babette Deutsch, David Chalmers, Anil Seth, Thomas Metzinger, …
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