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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 Paradox of Consciousness

The idea is that there's actually a phenomenal character to awareness as such, which is completely transparent to almost every normal human being. You never feel it. But meditators could be a population that cultivates this awareness of awareness, meta attention, attention to attention. And I've presented, except from about 500 reports by meditators, how they describe the pure awareness experience. It's for wider audience. Every chapter has a first part where you can just read the descriptions,. Then there are some ideas from neuroscience philosophy and then you find common denominators. Very simple. So I have it here. Let's try to do.

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