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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 Tonic Alertness

I'm trying to offer the community a careful phenomenological description of pure awareness. I'm creating appetizers and people shall cook their own main courses. The strongest external stimulus that has to be explained away is not something that comes in through sensory modules or through interception in the thalamus. But it's the activity of the formazio reticularis, the ascending activation system in the brain stem. That is actually biophysically the most massive, completely unexplained signal source within the body.

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