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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 Existence Bias

"We are beings who will always opt to continue their own existence even if it's not in their own best interest," says David Benatar. "I have introduced a term that is called existence bias and David Benatar would immediately understand it." We were never meant to simulate future worlds in which we didn't have a lot of healthy offspring or in which we were dead, he adds. 'If we want to stay functional in seeing our own mortality so clearly, we need to tweak our model of reality'

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