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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 Elephant and the Blind

I've meditated twice a day for more than 46 years, and done a lot in my private life, about which I've never talked so far. So over the last three years, I've tried to develop a completely different approach to consciousness. People don't know about it's called a minimal model explanation. It means that you subtract everything from your target phenomenon that is superfluous and not necessary for the causal emergence of the phenomenon. And I have a candidate. Is the experience of pure awareness and meditation, or the simplest state of conscious experience. The Elephant and the Blind will be published by Simon & Schuster next year.

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