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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 Importance of Mind Wandering

We are not in control of our own cognitive processes for more than 50% of our conscious lifetime. So I think when you have control over your focus of attention and listen to me, you have a stable epistemic agent model. But then you very often have a brief attentional lapse and think about what you have to do tomorrow, or what your next question should be. And then thatEpistemicAgent model collapses and has to be reconstructed. In my view, mind wandering episodes always begin with a collapse of the  epistemicagent model. That doesn't mean that the daydream cannot be of our future selves. It complicates things. The interesting thing was Bill and some

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