The ego tunnel
Subtitle: the science of the mind and the myth of the self
By: Thomas Metzinger
Publisher: BasicBooks
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780465020690
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Self (Philosophy); Self; Consciousness; Personality
Other titles: Science of the mind and the myth of the self
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-259) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part I: The consciousness problem; title: The appearance of a world; title: A tour of the tunnel; title: The unity of consciousness; title: Part II: Ideas and discoveries; title: Out of the body and into the mind : body image, out-of-body experiences, and the virtual self; title: From ownership to agency to free will; title: Philosophical psychonautics : what can we learn from lucid dreaming?; title: Dreaming; title: The empathic ego; title: The shared manifold; title: Part III: The consciousness revolution; title: Artificial ego machines; title: Consciousness technologies and the image of humankind; title: A new kind of ethics.