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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 Pre-Philosophical Mind-Body Problem

The human self model evolved because we had to jump from branch to branch and run away from predators. Other beings might not be able to imagine their mind as independently flying away floating in somewhere after their body has died. For us, for us, it seems to come necessary that my mental processes could somehow go on with our body perception of any kind or spatial or sensory perception. And they make Cartesian intuitions. There is something that doesn't belong to that animal machine body. They're so plausible. So that's the pre philosophical mind body problem. Then we have, of course, a century long history, as you know too well. But I think one important thing to understand the problem

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