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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Metzinger, Thomas, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Basic Books, 2009.
Temas:
Consciousness.
Personality.
Self.
Consciousness
Personality
Ego
Conscience.
Personnalité.
Moi (Psychologie)
PSYCHOLOGY > Personality.
PHILOSOPHY > Mind & Body.
Self
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Part I: The consciousness problem
  • The appearance of a world
  • A tour of the tunnel
  • The unity of consciousness
  • Part II: Ideas and discoveries
  • Out of the body and into the mind : body image, out-of-body experiences, and the virtual self
  • From ownership to agency to free will
  • Philosophical psychonautics : what can we learn from lucid dreaming?
  • Dreaming
  • The empathic ego
  • The shared manifold
  • Part III: The consciousness revolution
  • Artificial ego machines
  • Consciousness technologies and the image of humankind
  • A new kind of ethics.

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