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BEING NO ONE - THOMAS METZINGER KARTONIERT (TB)

According to Thomas Metzinger  no such things as selves exist in the world: nobody ever had or
was a self. All that exists are phenomenal selves  as they appear in conscious experience. The
phenomenal self  however  is not a thing but an ongoing process  it is the content of a
transparent self-model. 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.

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