Metzinger, Thomas 1958-

The ego tunnel : the science of the mind and the myth of the self by Thomas Metzinger ( Book )
8 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and held by 778 libraries worldwide
"In this exploration of human consciousness, philosopher and scientist Thomas Metzinger provides evidence that the "self" does not really exist. Highlighting a series of ground-breaking experiments in neuroscience, virtual reality, and robotics, and his own pioneering research into the phenomenon of the "out-of-body" experience, Metzinger reveals how our brain constructs our reality - our deepest sense of self is completely dependent on our brain functioning." "In The Ego Tunnel, Metzinger examines recent evidence that people born without arms or legs can experience a sensation that they do in fact have limbs - and how we can actually feel a human touch in a rubber hand placed on a desk in front of us. Similarly, he reveals how the state of our experiential self changes when we become lucid while we're dreaming, and how our sense of self can even be transposed into a three-dimensional computer-generated image of our body in cyberspace simply by using virtual reality goggles, creating a conflict between the seeing self and the feeling self. He goes on to discuss the latest research on free will, machine consciousness, and the evolution of empathy." "Highlighting these examples and more, Metzinger asserts that if our "self" is created by our brain mechanisms and it's possible to alter our subjective reality, then this creates not only a deeper understanding of consciousness, but a need for a new approach to ethics. Our sense of self, our spatial understanding, and the feeling of embodiment can be manipulated and even controlled. Using new kinds of medication, we can even enhance cognition and fine-tune emotional layers of self-consciousness. But what, in an ethical sense, are valuable forms of self-experience in the first place - what is a good state of consciousness?".

Being no one the self-model theory of subjectivity by Thomas Metzinger ( Book )
9 editions published between 2003 and 2004 in English and held by 743 libraries worldwide
"In Being No One, Metzinger, a German philosopher, draws strongly on neuroscientific research to present a representationalist and functional analysis of what a consciously experienced first-person perspective actually is. Building a bridge between the humanities and the empirical sciences of the mind, he develops new conceptual toolkits and metaphors; uses case studies of unusual states of mind such as agnosia, neglect, blindsight, and hallucinations; and offers new sets of multilevel constraints for the concept of consciousness. Metzinger's central question is: How exactly does strong, consciously experienced subjectivity emerge out of objective events in the natural world? His epistemic goal is to determine whether conscious experience, in particular the experience of being someone that results from the emergence of a phenomenal self, can be analyzed on subpersonal levels of description. He also asks if and how our Cartesian intuitions that subjective experiences as such can never be reductively explained are themselves ultimately rooted in the deeper representational structure of our conscious minds." "Metzinger introduces two theoretical entities - the "phenomenal self-model" and the "phenomenal model of the intentionality relation"--That may form the decisive conceptual link between first-person and third-person approaches to the conscious mind and between consciousness research in the humanities and in the sciences. He also discusses the roots of intersubjectivity, artificial subjectivity (the issue of nonbiological phenomenal selves), and connections between philosophy of mind and ethics."--Jacket.

Neural correlates of consciousness : empirical and conceptual questions ( Book )
6 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 462 libraries worldwide

Conscious experience ( Book )
6 editions published in 1995 in English and held by 251 libraries worldwide

Neuere Beiträge zur Diskussion des Leib-Seele-Problems by Thomas Metzinger ( Book )
2 editions published in 1985 in German and held by 64 libraries worldwide

Subjekt und Selbstmodell : die Perspektivität phänomenalen Bewusstseins vor dem Hintergrund einer naturalistischen Theorie mentaler Repräsentation by Thomas Metzinger ( Book )
3 editions published between 1992 and 1999 in German and held by 57 libraries worldwide

Bewusstsein : Beiträge aus der Gegenwartsphilosophie ( Book )
4 editions published between 1995 and 2005 in German and held by 42 libraries worldwide

De egotunnel : hersenonderzoek en de mythe van het zelf by Thomas Metzinger ( Book )
1 edition published in 2010 in Dutch and held by 10 libraries worldwide
Theoretisch-filosofisch betoog dat het menselijke Zelf niet bestaat, maar een creatie van de hersenen is..

The hunt for our thoughts ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2009 in English and held by 7 libraries worldwide

Grundkurs Philosophie des Geistes ( Book )
in Undetermined and held by 4 libraries worldwide