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

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York Basic Books c2009Description: x, 276 p. ill. 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780465020690
  • 0465045677
  • 9780465045679
Other title:
  • Science of the mind and the myth of the self [Distinctive title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 126 22
LOC classification:
  • BF311 .M47 2009
Other classification:
  • Doe
  • Dh
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.

Paperback ed. first published in 2010, 2. pr.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-259) and index.

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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