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The Phantom Self – A Case for Conceptual Reform
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Just when I thought I had my subjec...
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About – The Phantom Self
God suddenly has nothing and no one over which he can extend his efforts.
The entire concept of a creator god just appears downright silly.
Gordon says:
I’ve thought for a long time that God was ...
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Table of Contents – The Phantom Self
Humans excel at planning for the future. The dilemma of death: something we are very afraid of will inevitably occur. Belief in life after biological death. Is agony the price of realism about deat...
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A Special Form of Darkness: Metzinger on Subjectivity – The Phantom Self
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ur brains represent ourselves, to ourselves, by means of a Phenomenal Self-Model (PSM). According to Thomas Metzinger, the PSM is characterized by transparency, and a phenomenal quality of ‘minenes...
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Metzinger on the Unreality of the Self – The Phantom Self
Metzinger on the Unreality of the Self
In the last chapter of Being No One, Thomas Metzinger addresses the questions with which he introduced the book, a list that includes:
What is phenomenal selfhoo...
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The Phantom Self – The Phantom Self
In the Introduction to this project, I said:
It’s the strong – and I believe, irrational – hold that the idea of the self has over us, and particularly its role in motivating action, that led me to ch...