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The ego tunnel : the science of the mind and the myth of the self /
Philosopher and scientist Thomas Metzinger argues that neuroscience's picture of the "self" as an emergent phenomenon of our biology and the attendant fact that the "self" can be manipulated--and even controlled--raises novel and serious ethical questions. If, as Metzinger a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Basic Books,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Philosopher and scientist Thomas Metzinger argues that neuroscience's picture of the "self" as an emergent phenomenon of our biology and the attendant fact that the "self" can be manipulated--and even controlled--raises novel and serious ethical questions. If, as Metzinger argues, our conception of the self is a sort of tunnel-vision-like experience of the world, with little left in and much left out, can there be better or worse states of consciousness? And if so, what should we do to try to achieve them? Here, Metzinger outlines his vision of a moral philosophy of the min |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-259) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780786744428 0786744421 128246034X 9781282460348 |