The ego tunnel : the science of the mind and the myth of the self

The ego tunnel : the science of the mind and the myth of the self / Thomas Metzinger.

Philosopher and scientist Thomas Metzinger argues that neuroscience's picture of the "self" as an emergent phenomenon of our biology and the attendant fact that the "self" can be manipulated--and even controlled--raises novel and serious ethical questions. If, as Metzinger a...

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Main Author: Metzinger, Thomas, 1958-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, 2009.
Subjects:
Consciousness.
Personality.
Self.
PSYCHOLOGY > Personality.
PHILOSOPHY > Mind & Body.
Consciousness
Personality
Self
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I: The consciousness problem
  • The appearance of a world
  • A tour of the tunnel
  • The unity of consciousness
  • Part II: Ideas and discoveries
  • Out of the body and into the mind : body image, out-of-body experiences, and the virtual self
  • From ownership to agency to free will
  • Philosophical psychonautics : what can we learn from lucid dreaming?
  • Dreaming
  • The empathic ego
  • The shared manifold
  • Part III: The consciousness revolution
  • Artificial ego machines
  • Consciousness technologies and the image of humankind
  • A new kind of ethics.

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