The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self (repost)
Thomas Metzinger, "The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self"
B.sic B.oks | 2010 | ISBN: 0465020690, 0465045677 | 288 pages | PDF | 1 MB
B.sic B.oks | 2010 | ISBN: 0465020690, 0465045677 | 288 pages | PDF | 1 MB
This is a radical rethinking of the nature of consciousness. "The Ego Tunnel", a major work from one of the brightest of the new generation of philosophers of mind, proposes a simple yet radical rethinking of the nature of consciousness and a fascinating and controversial exploration of what it implies. We're used to thinking of the self's relation to the world as a dyad-the inner me as opposed to the outer world. This model assumes that what we're perceiving when we experience the world is actually the world.