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| Titre : | The Ego Tunnel |
| Auteurs : | Thomas Metzinger |
| Type de document : | document électronique |
| Editeur : | [S.l.] : Basic Books, 2009 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-465-02069-0 |
| Index. décimale : | 612 (Physiologie humaine : classer ici les ouvrages d'ensemble sur l'anatomie et la physiologie humaine. Classer la psychophysiologie ├á 152) |
| Résumé : |
"### From Publishers Weekly Consciousness, mind, brain, self: the relations among these four entities are explored by German cognitive scientist and theoretical philosopher Metzinger, who argues that, in fact, there is no such thing as a self. In prose accessible mainly to those schooled in philosophy and science, Metzinger defines the ego as the phenomenal self, which knows the world experientially as it subjectively *appear[s]* to you. But neuroscientific experiments have demonstrated, among other things, that the unitary sense of self is a subjective representation: for instance, one can be fooled into feeling sensations in a detached artificial arm. So the author argues that the ego is a tunnel that bores into reality and limits what you can see, hear, smell and feel. Metzinger tests his theory by ranging over events of the consciousness such as out-of-body experiences, lucid dreaming and free will, and he concludes by probing ethical actions and what a good state of consciousness would look like. Most readers will have difficulty penetrating Metzinger's ideas, and those who do will find little that is genuinely new. *(Apr.)* Copyright ┬® Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. ### Review ""Library Journal"" ""Metzinger's intended audience is the lay reader, and he does a superb job of presenting his theory and introducing philosophical issues related to consciousness.""" |
