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

Mind-Body Solution

CHAPTER

The Hidden Spring of Consciousness

I think there is an overlooked, very subtle, very simple phenomenology of just being awake and aware. And I think that could lead to a minimum model explanation of consciousness. There are rare advanced practitioners of meditation report about something that is sometimes called clear light sleep or witnessing sleep,. An experience of being awake during non REM sleep. No dreams, no content, don't feel the body, don't hear the environment in the bedroom.

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