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Thousand years later, avagosha gave it new insight with the concept of emptiness, cummulating in the prajna paramita sutra (exa... Read More
The phenomenal ego, the experiential content of the human self-model, clearly disagrees with the scientific worldview.
The assertion of randomness aside, metzinger would then have to deal with the significance and complexity of information.
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Even though i was already familiar with much of the terminology used,i had to look it up again.
His theory of consciousness is refreshingly philosophically informed compared to competing theories by neuroscientists who are ... Read More
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- This product had a total of 167 reviews as of our last analysis date on Nov 1 2021.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Metzinger in fact does far more than merely touch on such things he reaches right inside your guts up to his shoulder and beyond and roots about as though hes trying to turn you inside out undoubtedly many people wont appreciate having their most sacred notions challenged in quite this forceful a manner but this book encompasses both the sacred and the profane without being i hasten to add in the least bit contemptuous of those ideas and mores that it might appear to render utterly obsolete
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
There is no process of selection at all all we really have is dynamical selforganization
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I personally was moved as well as awed not bad for a work of science and philosophy written by a mere academic
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Of course there can be goal representations in the brains of biological organisms but ultimately if neuroscience is to take its own background assumptions seriously they refer to nothing
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The world is not inhabited by colored objects at all
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Most of them are invisible to you and can never become part of your conscious model of reality
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I enjoyed most of the writing even though parts of the later chapters felt like they may belong in another book and the beginning is relatively dense for a layperson
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