BS 212 Thomas Metzinger on "The Ego Tunnel" (Encore)

This month's episode of Brain Science features Thomas Metzinger,
author of "The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth
of the Self." Metzinger is a philosopher with a longstanding
interest in Philosophy of Mind with a focus on incorporating the
findings of neuroscience. We discuss the implications of the
discovery that consciousness is a biological process generated by
the interaction of the brain, body, and external world. Metzinger
also emphasized the importance of considering altered states
including dreaming, out of body experiences, and even virtual
reality.


Links and References:


The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the
Self, by Thomas Metzinger.

Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity, by
Thomas Metzinger.

Blanke, et al., "Stimulating Illusory Own-Body Perceptions,"
Nature, 419:269-270 (2002)  

O. Blanke & T. Metzinger,"Full-Body Illusion and Minimal
Phenomenal Selfhood," Trends in Cognitive Neuroscience 13(1):7-13
(2009).

T. Metzinger, "Out of Body Experiences as the Origin of the
Concept of a 'Soul,'"  Mind and Matter 3(1):57-84 (2005)

Beyond the Body: An Investigation of Out of Body Experiences
by Susan Blackmore 

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references and episode transcripts.



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