false 247388 0 0 Thomas Metzinger is a German philosopher. He currently holds the position of director of the theoretical philosophy group at the department of philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and is an Adjunct Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies.

He has been active since the early 1990s in the promotion of consciousness studies as an academic endeavor.

In 2003 he published the monograph Being No One. In this book he argues that 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. He argues that the phenomenal self, however, is not a thing but an ongoing process; it is the content of a "transparent self-model."

Metzinger is praised for his grasp of the fundamental issues of neurobiology, consciousness and the relationship of mind and body. However, his views about the self are the subject of considerable controversy and ongoing debates.

Excerpted from Wikipedia.]]> male 1958/03/12 5895503 0465045677 9780465045679 4 <![CDATA[The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255594610m/5895503.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5895503.The_Ego_Tunnel_The_Science_of_the_Mind_and_the_Myth_of_the_Self 4.27 11 The Ego Tunnel, philosopher Thomas Metzinger claims otherwise: No such thing as a self exists. The conscious self is the content of a model created by our brain—an internal image, but one we cannot experience as an image. Everything we experience is “a virtual self in a virtual reality.”

But if the self is not “real,” why and how did it evolve? How does the brain construct it? Do we still have souls, free will, personal autonomy, or moral accountability? In a time when the science of cognition is becoming as controversial as evolution, The Ego Tunnel provides a stunningly original take on the mystery of the mind.

]]> 247388 4.28 18 5 439332 0262633086 9780262633086 1 <![CDATA[Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity (Bradford Books)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174778464m/439332.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/439332.Being_No_One_The_Self_Model_Theory_of_Subjectivity 4.40 5 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.]]> 247388 4.28 18 5 1120105 0262133709 9780262133708 0 <![CDATA[Neural Correlates of Consciousness: Empirical and Conceptual Questions]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181154799m/1120105.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1120105.Neural_Correlates_of_Consciousness_Empirical_and_Conceptual_Questions 4.00 1 subjectivity of the target phenomenon--the fact that conscious experience, under standard conditions, is always tied to an individual, first-person perspective. The core empirical question is whether and how physical states of the human nervous system can be mapped onto the content of conscious experience. The search for the neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) has become a highly active field of investigation in recent years. Methods such as single-cell recording in monkeys and brain imaging and electrophysiology in humans, applied to such phenomena as blindsight, implicit/explicit cognition, and binocular rivalry, have generated a wealth of data. The same period has seen the development of a number of theories about NCC location. This volume brings together the leading experimentalists and theoreticians in the field. Topics include foundational and evolutionary issues, global integration, vision, consciousness and the NMDA receptor complex, neuroimaging, implicit processes, intentionality and phenomenal volition, schizophrenia, social cognition, and the phenomenal self.

Contributors
Jackie Andrade, Ansgar Beckermann, David J. Chalmers, Francis Crick, Antonio R. Damasio, Gerald M. Edelman, Dominic ffytche, Hans Flohr, N. P. Franks, Vittorio Gallese, Melvyn A. Goodale, Valerie Gray Hardcastle, Beena Khurana, Christof Koch, W. R. Lieb, Erik D. Lumer, Thomas Metzinger, Kelly J. Murphy, Romi Nijhawan, Joëlle Proust, Antti Revonsuo, Gerhard Roth, Thomas Schmidt, Wolf Singer, Giulio Tononi.]]> 247388 4.28 18 5 796481 090784510X 9780907845102 0 <![CDATA[Conscious Experience]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178458629m/796481.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/796481.Conscious_Experience 4.00 1 247388 4.28 18 5 6382945 3897855542 9783897855540 0 <![CDATA[Grundkurs Philosophie des Geistes. Band 1: Phänomenales Bewusstsein /Band 2: Das Leib-Seele-Problem /Band 3: Intentionalität und mentale Repräsentation]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6382945-grundkurs-philosophie-des-geistes-band-1 0.0 0 247388 4.28 18 5 6382943 389785600X 9783897856004 0 <![CDATA[Bewußtsein: Beiträge aus der Gegenwartsphilosophie]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6382943-bewu-tsein 0.0 0 247388 4.28 18 5 6382941 3897855518 9783897855519 0 <![CDATA[Grundkurs Philosophie des Geistes 1: Phänomenales Bewusstsein: 1]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6382941-grundkurs-philosophie-des-geistes-1 0.0 0 247388 4.28 18 5 6382940 3455305822 9783455305821 0 <![CDATA[anders denken-das rätsel bewusstsein]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6382940-anders-denken-das-r-tsel-bewusstsein 0.0 0 247388 4.28 18 5 6342316 3897850818 9783897850811 0 <![CDATA[Subjekt und Selbstmodell]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6342316-subjekt-und-selbstmodell 0.0 0 247388 4.28 18 5 1616816 3820489274 9783820489279 0 <![CDATA[Neuere Beitrage zur Diskussion des Leib-Seele-Problems (European university studies. Series XX, Philosophy)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1616816.Neuere_Beitrage_zur_Diskussion_des_Leib_Seele_Problems 0.0 0 247388 4.28 18 5