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Der Ego Tunnel. Eine Neue Philosophie Des Selbst: Von Der Hirnforschung Zur Bewusstseinsethik (2009)

by Thomas Metzinger(Favorite Author)

4.03 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

3833307196 (ISBN13: 9783833307195)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Bloomsbury Verlag

review 1: On the second reading of this book - this is one of the BEST non-fiction books I have recently read. Smart and funny and absolutely merciless to any religious atavisms or illusions one may still harbor in the depth of one's mind. God has been dead for me for ages, but upon reading this book one cannot but come to the conclusion that (rephrasing Nietzsche) "Soul is dead"(or at least is not there :)). Scientific evidence works in the book as an illustration to the philosophical ideas that are so hard to digest in their abstract form, it makes the illusory character of the ego painfully obvious.
review 2: "Interesting read. Neuroscience weighing in on how individuals experience their world. Fascinating data on Phantom hand, what is the entity that has the conciou... mores experience, etc. The author does seek to source some other disciplines like psychology and some "folk" thinking for informing his model of Ego Tunnel that he supports with clinical observation, but I'd like to see research on conciousness expand to include a broader context.Metzinger describes conciousness as a discrete phenomemon he attributes to a first person perspective of how we construct our individual subjective experience of our individual world--"a private realm of experience that only you have direct access to". Metzinger states that conciousness is always bound to an individual. I would agree that an individual's experience of conciousness is bound to that individual, but I'd be interested in seeing the clinical proof that there is no shared conciousness. What might quantum physics add to the larger context of where conciousness resides outside of individual experience? I love the idea that future conciousness research would engage multiple scientific disciplines for a richer more complex understanding rather than a reductionist, brain mapping framework tied to the presumption that because we currently have no clinical framework for a broader picture, we limit our understanding of conciousness by pinning it individual experience." less

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