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Ramachandran's phantoms in the brain is very readable and fascinating as well. Few philosophers have such knowledge of the extensive literature.

Metzinger argues that mental states have representational, and these states can have phenomenal content if the representational states meet some constraints. He also argues that self content must meet certain constraints to be considered phenomenal se...  Read More

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I am by far more impressed with the former, although undoubtedly the latter is extremely interesting as well.


What's even more exasperating is that metzinger's entire point of the self's substantiality, essence and individuality not bein...  Read More


But metzinger does not seem to be familiar with the paralogisms.


I find something to disagree with on almost every page, but i still end up agreeing with the book as a whole.

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  • This product had a total of 34 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 7 2023.

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    Also hes often an uncannily good writer considering how dry the material could be and that english is a second language for him


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    This book is very hard to review


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    There are many reasons for this


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    Now in reality it is not obvious that consciousness has been explained


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    After reading dennett few believed consicousness had been explaied


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    Metzinger wanted to show that the self can be explained in subpersonal terms using representational analysis


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    Having to explain consicousness to try to explain the self


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    And so the book could be seen as divided in two

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