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The central thread of metzinger's argument is that the subjective experience of self is illusion (an ego tunnel) each of us lives in his/her ego tunnel, without direct contact with external reality, but with an inner first-person perspective. Using mo... Read More
In the absence of traditional human values, science and logic need to be turned to in order to provide direction and to know how to proceed ethically. It is crucial that brain research along these lines must continue. What is more important and has mo... Read More
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Get global already. Apparently not for the layman. Very disappointing. Life has no goal, no intention, no purpose.
He mentions aldous huxley’s experiments with mescaline but not his novel “brave new world’. Metzinger uses the word inconceivable and then goes about explaining that which is inconceivable. This is a depressing book using research of neuro and cogniti... Read More
My quarrel with the super intellectuals is how desperately they cling to naturalism.
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But more fundamentally, reading this i thought i finally understood what it must have been like to live through the revolution ... Read More
I heartily agree with the positive opinions of others here - this is a first class addition to the lay person's literature on c... Read More
The phenomenal ego, the experiential content of the human self-model, clearly disagrees with the scientific worldview.
The author's nihilistic conclusion about the self, one suspects, is spot on, but his exhortation that the humanities and psycho... Read More
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His theory of consciousness is refreshingly philosophically informed compared to competing theories by neuroscientists who are ... Read More
Even though i was already familiar with much of the terminology used,i had to look it up again.
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self, conscious, scientific, human and level. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- This product had a total of 223 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 28 2022.
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These ideas were given a much more thorough treatment in his 600 page magnum opus being no one
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Not for those who fear having their naïve realismtransparent self model pointed out and destabilized
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Thankfully he isnt content with simply describing the current state of neuroscience which can be dry to a nonscientist like me with all its talk of physical brain functions and such
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The ego tunnel is a great example of how one shouldnt judge a book by a single critical review
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I read owen flanagans review in new scientist and questioned whether i should buy this book
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I didnt find a trace of the philosophical grandiosity that flanagan talked about
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Instead i found big problems being addressed as noted above
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This may be a settled question among academic neuroscientists but it certainly isnt among the people i know
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