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Thomas Metzinger: Is The Self An Illusion? Minimal Phenomenal Selfhood & Epistemic Agent Model

Mind-Body Solution

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The Negative Phenomenology of Human Life

I think for me, it is highly intuitive that an ordinary human life contains more suffering than joy. I did a pilot study with 12 or 17 of my PhD students in our group. So the question was this, you're going to get random SMS messages at different times. And whenever your phone buzzes, you check and see what moment would be worth taking into afterlife. You can make a selection from those experiences you have created before you died. They will buy a random randomized algorithm that will be played back after death.

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